On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > The new (i.e. KDE 3.1) kdm takes an inordinately long time to startup on > my system. After the switch to X, there's a delay of 15 to 30 seconds > until the login screen (kdm greeter) appears. During this time, there's > heavy activity on the disk. > > My best guess is that kdm is exhaustively searching for some resource. > This did not happen with earlier versions of kdm.
Could you run fc-cache as root and then logout and login again and see if it still does it. That solution worked for me although I don't know why the font caches are doing it.
