Re: gnome 2.30 slow startup (Could not ask session manager if shut down is available)

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:23:55 -0400
On 7/26/10 10:46 AM, 裴国兴 wrote:
> Recently, I update my FreeBSD to 8.1, and Found that gnome 2.30 startup very
> slow. It take one nimus or more to finish startup.
> When startup, the gnome-panel will display after nautilus about 30 seconds.
> 
>>From the console,  I see that
> 
> 1、gnome-session[1935]: WARNING: Application 'metacity.desktop' failed to
> register before timeout
> --------- after about 30 seconds ----------
> 2、** (gnome-panel:1966): WARNING **: Could not ask session manager if shut
> down is available: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the
> remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy
> blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was
> broken.
> 
> I recompile metacity, and "WARNING: Application 'metacity.desktop' failed to
> register before timeout" disappear.
> 
> I try to recompile gnome-session, but not work.
> Finally, I do a little change for gnome-session and compile, it work.
> the change file is gsm_manager.c
>         GsmConsolekit *consolekit;
>         gboolean can_suspend = 0;
>         gboolean can_hibernate = 0;
> 
> #if 0
>         g_object_get (manager->priv->dkp_client,
>                       "can-suspend", &can_suspend,
>                       "can-hibernate", &can_hibernate,
>                       NULL);
> #endif
> 
>         g_debug ("GsmManager: CanShutdown called");
> 
>         g_return_val_if_fail (GSM_IS_MANAGER (manager), FALSE);
> 
>         consolekit = gsm_get_consolekit ();
>         *shutdown_available = gsm_consolekit_can_stop (consolekit)
>                               || gsm_consolekit_can_restart (consolekit)
>                               || can_suspend
>                               || can_hibernate;
>         g_object_unref (consolekit);
>         *shutdown_available = 0;
> 
> I use following command to start session
> 
> setenv GNOME_SESSION "/usr/local/bin/ck-launch-session
> /usr/local/bin/gnome-session"
> env LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 XMODIFIERS=_at_im=ibus startx $GNOME_SESSION
> 
> I also found that if login user is  root, it works very well.
> 
> The question is why the g_object_get call will take such a long time on
> non-root user.

This is fixed in the latest sysutils/consolekit.  Prior to the fix,
sessions started with startx were not marked as active, and thus could
not be properly authorized.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome_at_FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
Received on Mon Jul 26 2010 - 13:51:54 UTC

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