Long delay starting apps in KDE

mr-simon · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 11:34 am Post subject: Long delay starting apps in KDE

Has anyone come across this before?

I've just installed gentoo on my Sony Vaio laptop. Everything works fine so far (except sound but I'll worry about that if/when I need it) except for one thing:

When starting an application in KDE (konsole, mozilla, kmail, others...) either by clicking on an icon or going to 'Run Command...' - the system fails to load the program for about 45 seconds or so. Other programs function normally, but if I clicked on an icon, I get an 'i'm loading' flashing icon next to my cursor for a while. - Then, the application launches and everything is fast and smooth. Seems only a delay during launch.

Interestingly, VMWare launches straight away, but then pauses when I power on my virtual machine instead.

Where should I start looking for things that might be wrong?

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474 · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 714

Have you got your hostname set properly? And have you tried going back to the console from which you launched X (Ctrl+Alt+F1) to see if any messages appear which could help explain the syndrome? Also, make sure .ICE-unix in /tmp is owned by root.

Ravage · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 107

same problem was on my machine:
after doing

mr-simon · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 11:44 am Post subject:

yep, the emerge trick seemed to fix it. thanks.
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