Extremely Slow Login 12.3 Gnome

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Has anyone else been experiencing an extremely slow login under openSUSE 12.3 Gnome?

I am counting upwards of 20 seconds before I see a functional desktop interface after logging on to my user profile. I am running 64-bit 12.3 Gnome with an nVidia graphics card.

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On Mon 17 Jun 2013 02:36:01 AM CDT, gforce6point0 wrote:

Has anyone else been experiencing an extremely slow login under openSUSE
12.3 Gnome?

I am counting upwards of 20 seconds before I see a functional desktop
interface after logging on to my user profile. I am running 64-bit 12.3
Gnome with an nVidia graphics card.

Hi
Install systemd-analyze and then run;


systemd-analyze blame

Please post the output back here between code tags…

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.11-desktop
up 0:26, 3 users, load average: 0.18, 0.26, 0.23
CPU AMD Athlon™ II P360@2.30GHz | GPU Mobility Radeon HD 4200

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@op- Have we ruled out that any program registered to start with GNOME or GNOME Shell extension causing the issue

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malcolmlewis
Here is the output…from the looks of it it seems to be taking nearly 1.5 seconds to do a number of operations? Are these times compounded?


 systemd-analyze blame  1591ms systemd-udev-root-symlink.service
  1549ms home.mount
  1465ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
  1274ms xdm.service
  1242ms dev-mqueue.mount
  1233ms dev-hugepages.mount
  1070ms avahi-daemon.service
  1041ms NetworkManager.service
  1029ms systemd-logind.service
  1028ms vmtoolsd.service
   971ms systemd-remount-fs.service
   521ms systemd-sysctl.service
   443ms postfix.service
   190ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
   163ms systemd-modules-load.service
    86ms rtkit-daemon.service
    75ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
    68ms fbset.service
    39ms sshd.service
    36ms rsyslog.service
    36ms rc-local.service
    31ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
    26ms polkit.service
    18ms atd.service
    18ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
    17ms udisks2.service
    10ms var-lock.mount
     9ms bluetooth.service
     9ms accounts-daemon.service
     7ms systemd-user-sessions.service
     5ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
     3ms upower.service
     2ms var-run.mount
     1ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
     1ms systemd-udevd.service

vazhavandan
I think the only shell mod I have on is the extended/alternative status menu that comes prepackaged with 12.3.

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On Tue 18 Jun 2013 03:06:03 AM CDT, gforce6point0 wrote:

malcolmlewis
Here is the output…from the looks of it it seems to be taking nearly
1.5 seconds to do a number of operations? Are these times compounded?

Code:

systemd-analyze blame 1591ms systemd-udev-root-symlink.service
1549ms home.mount
1465ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
1274ms xdm.service
1242ms dev-mqueue.mount
1233ms dev-hugepages.mount
1070ms avahi-daemon.service
1041ms NetworkManager.service
1029ms systemd-logind.service
1028ms vmtoolsd.service
971ms systemd-remount-fs.service
521ms systemd-sysctl.service
443ms postfix.service
190ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
163ms systemd-modules-load.service
86ms rtkit-daemon.service
75ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
68ms fbset.service
39ms sshd.service
36ms rsyslog.service
36ms rc-local.service
31ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
26ms polkit.service
18ms atd.service
18ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
17ms udisks2.service
10ms var-lock.mount
9ms bluetooth.service
9ms accounts-daemon.service
7ms systemd-user-sessions.service
5ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
3ms upower.service
2ms var-run.mount
1ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
1ms systemd-udevd.service

Hi
Yes they are… if you run the command without the blame it shows the
total time.

So you have additional partitions and rotating large disks?

Of those services in the list, what are you not using?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.11-desktop
up 0:13, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.09, 0.06
CPU AMD Athlon™ II P360@2.30GHz | GPU Mobility Radeon HD 4200

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But systemd-analyze only times up to log on prompt.
Time from log on to stable desktop is not included.

So the question is what are you starting on the desktop?

The more complex your desktop setup the longer it takes.

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On Tue 18 Jun 2013 04:06:02 AM CDT, gogalthorp wrote:

But systemd-analyze only times up to log on prompt.
Time from log on to stable desktop is not included.

So the question is what are you starting on the desktop?

The more complex your desktop setup the longer it takes.

Hi
If user gforce6point0 is not auto logging in, then it may pay to check
the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but those times are
sub-optimal IMHO.

Even my older laptops with rotating drives are at the desktop from boot
in less that 20 seconds max, this laptop in less than 10 seconds with
an SSD.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) Kernel 3.7.10-1.11-desktop
up 0:04, 3 users, load average: 0.17, 0.20, 0.11
CPU AMD Athlon™ II P360@2.30GHz | GPU Mobility Radeon HD 4200

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The only additive thing I have running is Conky. I turned it off and still get the same result. Could this be my large spinning disk failing? How would I check this? My PC is less than 2 years old (and usually in my experience HDD failure happens at roughly 6 or so years), I have 8 GB of RAM and a Core i7. 12.2 was much faster…

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Hi
That should be very quick…!

So what graphics card, are you auto logging in?

As root run smartctl on your drive, what size drive?