Bug#297937: gnome-session: gnome-smproxy hangs, making login process last several minutes

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005, Sam Morris wrote:
> Great, output attached.

 (May I upload your file to a public place?  It might contain some
 sensitive informations on your system, but I presume you did not send
 it to the bug report because of its size.)

 I had a first look at the output, I think it's ok to guess some basic
 things.  For example, I grepped on "execve" and saw some strange holes
 between 04:33:57 and 04:35:57, or between 04:35:57 and 04:37:57.
 During the first period, the following PIDs are active:
 29334 29336 29341 29345 29355 29369

 And during the second one, these are active:
 29334 29336 29345 29355 29452 29455

 I examinated a bit closer the first hole, and saw a bunch of 5 seconds
 timeouts in select(), especially from PID 29355 which seems to be
 xscreensaver having trouble to connect to X...

 Could you try creating a /home/sam/bin/xscreensaver with a dummy shell
 script just to see if that improves your startup time?

 (It might be a completely bad guess though.)

 Anyway, and just for completeness, could you please explain how the
 strace ended?  Did you "kill" a particular program?  Did you press ^C?
   Please attach your .gnome2/session.

   Regards,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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