[plug] Ubuntu woes

[Steve Baker]

Logging to to GDM, to a VT, or over ssh all do the same thing - delay of 
up to 30s or so after entering the password.  Performance is way slow 
even before the system is ready to log in, so I don't think it's 
specific to Gnome.

Regards,
Steve


Beng Tan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does the extreme slowness seem to occur when running gui programs, or
> cli programs, or both? We might be able to bisect the problem this
> way.
>
> When you say 'log in' below, which do you mean?
>
> Logging in at the gnome/kde/Xserver login screen?
> Starting a new gnome terminal?
>
> Do you want to try logging in from a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and
> see if there's any difference?
>
> (Ctrl-Alt-F7 will take you back to your X screen)
>
> Beng
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Steve Baker <steve at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>   
>> When I log in, it can take 30secs or more after accepting the password
>> before I get the $ prompt.  (This is NOT the well-known ssh reverse lookup
>> timeout problem).  Sometimes when running a command (especially with a
>> larger on-disk program size, eg. vi) it takes a few seconds to load the
>> program, more than I would expect.
>>     
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