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bobland

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Registered: 2009-10-02

Posts: 8

Slow Startup

I recently installed Arch Linux (2009.08) and xfce4.  Everything is working fine except xfce takes 75 seconds to boot.  I'm timing this from startx.  I boot directly into the desktop, bypassing the login.  My install is pretty vanilla so I don't know what's eating up the time.

I found one post with a similar problem but that appeared to be related to boot issues.

Thanks,
Burt

ManOfSteel

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Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 104

Re: Slow Startup

Clear the sessions directory (~/.cache/sessions) from the shell, then try again. And use xinit instead of startx.

bobland

Member

Registered: 2009-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: Slow Startup

Cleared the sessions directory but it didn't change the behaviour.  I'm using .xinitrc.  Tried starting xfce using 'exec startxfce4' and 'exec xfce4-session'.  Neither made a difference.

If you look at my bootchart you'll see that firefox is loading in there.  I've had problems with firefox loading in the background before.  Is there a way to stop this from loading at boot time?

http://yfrog.com/03bootchartdp

bobland

Member

Registered: 2009-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: Slow Startup

Solved.

Deleted the session, closed firefox, THEN, rebooted.  Previously, I had FF open on the reboot so it kept loading in the background killing the xfce boot.