Tim Wright writes: > I believe I'm seeing an instance of this bug. When logging in > normally (via gdm) I get presented with a blank root window (with > the nice standard X effect) and nothing happens for a few > minutes. This is after the kde splash comes up and loads everything.
> So, I did a startx (after stopping gdm) and loaded the kde > components manually. kwin and kicker started fine, as did > klauncher. kdesktop takes *ages* to do anything, but eventually > gives me a desktop I can use. top reports nothing hogging the CPU. > It could be a blocked file read with a long timeout perhaps? > This started happenning this morning. Last night it didn't > happen. The only difference between last night and today is...last > night I was at home..today I'm at work (it's a laptop). Last night I > had an external monitor plugged in. > After it started happenning I upgraded my X packages to > experimental, this means that the 3D acelleration on my video card > (ATO radeon 7500) is now working (XFree86 4.3.something). kdesktop > still takes ages tho. Hi, This is a pretty weird bug. Are you also using KDE 2.* ? Can you perhaps try if the problem also occurs with unstable's or testing's kde packages ? thanks domi
