Re: REALLY slow xstart and kde start [SOLVED]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:29 -0700, Jon D. Slater wrote:
  

Claude Jones wrote: 
    

On Sun December 18 2005 8:18 pm, Jon D. Slater wrote:
  
      

Any ideas what's up?
    
        

I doubt this is it, but I'll offer it because I just spent two days fighting 
the exact same problem on a fresh install of a different distro. The problem 
- it turned out that NDISwrapper was my culprit. I don't have all the issues 
fleshed out, yet, but, I throw this out since our similar events are so 
coincidental. In my case, I had NDISwrapper on my laptop to get my broadcom 
wireless to be able to use its Windows driver - when I configured it, I had 
it set to start on boot, and that's what threw it. It spent a huge amount of 
time trying to start wlan0 and was unable to (for reasons I'm still trying to 
understand), and that hogged all my system's resources - boot time slowed to 
about 15 minutes
  
      

My boot time if fine.  And X starts fine too (I get my login screen
within a couple of minutes of booting).

The problem starts as soon as I enter my login and password, then
press enter.

My disk access light comes on solid, and it takes 15 minutes to
complete start my session.
    

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go to a virtual console and watch top...

<control><alt><F2>
login as root
run 'top'
<alt><F7> # return to GUI
login as normal
<control><alt><F2>
see which process is using up the CPU

Craig