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> Robert Fox wrote: > >Fresh Cooker install - tried Gnome and it works but the initial splash > >screen stays up for a long time (like two minutes) then disappears. > >What causes this? > > I've seen this as well. It's OK the first time (after the firsttime > wizard), but on subsequent logins it not only hangs around but "covers" > anything else on the screen. > > I had a similar problem with post-9.1 2.2 GNOME (circa May 18) where > logging in and out of different userids would eventually cause a hang > when you requested "logout". Well, not a true hang, but the logout > dialog box would take about 5 minutes to come up. > > In both cases, the "blockage" seems to "break" if you initiate enough > other GNOME-related activity. In the older logout case, opening a GNOME > terminal would trigger it. I haven't noticed a pattern in the new case. > > It's like something is holding a lock and then decides to release it, or > maybe a socket listener isn't listening closely enough... This may be daft (and unrelated) but I see this with the KDE spash screen when its restoring a session. I find that simply clicking on it makes if go away... Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ TIM St Andrews Road, Malvern GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/MRFZBn4EFUVUIO0RAiwUAJ9RL3pExfbg2RGZpaXY4tee2QrklwCfaLtF 0KgprRzary0uhmu5azuvFTM= =WWeB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
