Re: Metacity hangs for several minutes when starting

2002-12-20 Thread Agon S. Buchholz
Havoc Pennington wrote: I would suggest stracing the startup. Easiest thing is to create a ~/.Xclients file containing something like: [...] Then look at /tmp/startup-trace or make it available for other people to look at. Thanks for your fast answer; since /tmp/startup-trace is around 1,3

Re: Metacity hangs for several minutes when starting

2002-12-20 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 07:52:29PM +0100, Agon S. Buchholz wrote: > Can anyone please point me to information how to track down what > happens? As I understand the start-process of the "Bluecurve" UI, the X > Server has finished loading, started the Window Manager Metacity, so the > problem i

Metacity hangs for several minutes when starting

2002-12-20 Thread Agon S. Buchholz
Hi, I'm using RHL 8 for a few weeks on a SMP machine. Gnome 2 used to load in approx. 10 seconds after logging in with GDM. Since a few days this takes approx. 5 minutes: after starting Gnome 2 the "Metacity" icon pops up, then several minutes nothing (noticeable) happens (e.g. no hdd activity