Login takes too much time

[rohitsz]

Greetings there,

 

i am having this strange new problem on mandriva 2007 (Free).

When i press enter after giving in the login credentials, the screen stalls for around 3-4 minutes. untill the KDE loading screen shows up.

i tried to go to the text booting screen( ALT+CTRL+1), there too the last entry loaded [OK], after constant staring for 3-4 minutes on that screen i was able to see that the hal daemon tried to load up then in a matter of microseconds, the screen flushed to the text login(remember i came to this screen).

So i did the ALT+CTRL+7 to go to the graphics mode, there i see the KDE loading screen.

 

Can anyone help me as to what could cause this problem?

 

It is not a post install problem, i have had this running for around 1 month or so..

 

kindly help.

 

thanks,

rohit.

Edited April 7, 2007 by rohitsz

[scarecrow]

Most probably it's a networking problem, but I can't exclude other things.

Do you see any strange messages at the (hidden) file xsession-errors ?

[arctic]

Also: take a look at /var/log/messages. It will show you what was launched when and can help to narrow down the problem.

[rohitsz]

Greetings there,

here are the ouputs of the two named files:

 

[root@localhost rohitsz]# tail -n20 /home/rohitsz/.xsession-errors
 Minor opcode:  6
 Resource id:  0x4d
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
 Major opcode:  2
 Minor opcode:  0
 Resource id:  0x2a0000e
WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QStringList' error
WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QString' error
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
 Major opcode:  157
 Minor opcode:  6
 Resource id:  0x4d
X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4
 Major opcode:  54
 Minor opcode:  0
 Resource id:  0x18024cd
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
 Major opcode:  157
 Minor opcode:  6
 Resource id:  0x4d
[root@localhost rohitsz]#

[root@localhost rohitsz]# tail -n20 /var/log/messages
Apr  8 13:28:15 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Apr  8 13:28:28 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Apr  8 13:28:34 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Apr  8 13:28:44 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost avahi-daemon[3202]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost avahi-daemon[3202]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.5.
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost avahi-daemon[3202]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.5 on eth0.
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1420 seconds.
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost ifplugd(eth0)[2566]: client: Determining IP information for eth0... done.
Apr  8 13:28:46 localhost ifplugd(eth0)[2566]: Program executed successfully.
Apr  8 13:52:26 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Apr  8 13:52:26 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Apr  8 13:52:26 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1376 seconds.
Apr  8 14:01:01 localhost crond[4403]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Apr  8 14:15:22 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Apr  8 14:15:22 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Apr  8 14:15:22 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1718 seconds.
[root@localhost rohitsz]#

 

i can make very little sense out of it! :mellow:

 

thanks,

rohit.