Slow Intrepid 8.10 Login

I noticed that logging in takes significantly longer than hardy.
After entering password it takes about 2s to show the wallpaper, but about 25s to load gnome. Previously it only took approximately 5s to login in hardy.

I did some tests and gnome-failsafe takes just as long, but wmii takes less than 1s. I also removed as many startup programs from sessions as possible.

Are other people experiencing this and is there a quickfix?

System:
New install of Ubuntu 8.10 from CD
T7500 2GB Ram (no swap) Seagate 7200.3 (relatively fast 7200rpm laptop hd)

EDIT (Workaround)
The bug has to do with compiz-fusion. In order to login quickly go to System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects and set it to None.
Registered bug in launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/291467

After messing around with stuff apparently here is a weird solution.

What happened was after logging in, my computer sat there with virtually no activity for about 8s before starting the login process. I disconnected everything connected to my computer and unchecked gnome-wm from sessions. I login and it loads everything straight away though the desktop was ugly. I rechecked everything in sessions and now the login is responsive and under 15s which is acceptable.

I have the same problem, I did a upgrade from hardy. When logging in, it takes much longer as usual.

Ditto... Experiencing the exact same issue! Using Hardy, it took 5-10 secs to log in with my wallpaper emerging virtually instantly, after upgrading to Intrepid, it takes about 20 seconds before anything happens! When I hit "enter" from log in, the screen turns into that "ubuntu-brown" color and then it just seems to stop doing anything for 20 secs and then suddenly, the welcome sound plays and it starts up in 4-5 secs...

The computer is a T7300 Core2Duo 2.0 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, 8600 GS (256 mb), 7200 RPM HDD... So I don't think it is lack of performance which is the issue.

I have also found login incredibly slow taking 15 to 20 seconds before doing a thing. Disable gnome-gm and loads in substantially quicker but as aramadia says ugly. Re-enable the gnome-gm back to 15/20 wait?

Okay, so I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to Ubuntu, but looking through the Log-files, I've found these three lines in the deamon.log which seems to appear on each start-up and it lasts for about 20 seconds:

Quote:

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Oct 30 21:43:34 morten-laptop x-session-manager[6274]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of required component 'windowmanager'
Oct 30 21:43:45 morten-laptop x-session-manager[6274]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-wm.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Oct 30 21:43:55 morten-laptop x-session-manager[6274]: WARNING: Application 'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout

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Does this have anything to do with this issue or am I just wasting everybodies time on this?

Iv'e had this 'problem' too, but look at it this way: It's still faster than Vista. :cool:

I have the same messages too:

Oct 30 23:48:33 m1530 pulseaudio[15958]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Oct 30 23:48:33 m1530 pulseaudio[15958]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
Oct 30 23:48:33 m1530 pulseaudio[15958]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
Oct 30 23:48:44 m1530 gnome-session[15895]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-wm.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Oct 30 23:48:44 m1530 pulseaudio[15958]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Oct 30 23:48:44 m1530 pulseaudio[15958]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.

Clearly intrepid wasn't ready for release. The problem is still recurring.

Fixed!

Just figured it out. The bug has to do with compiz-fusion. In order to login quickly go to System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects and set it to None.

I wonder if this is the same bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/259385

This is not really a fix, but merely a workaround. If I actually want to use compiz-fusion I've to enable it everytime I log in?
At least when I want a fast login. :confused: