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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Neutral President: I have no strong feelings one way or the other."