Multiple xfdesktops running, and very slow startup

[Chris G]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:00:55PM +0100, Ali Abdallah wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 11:44 AM, Chris G wrote:
> >     ** (update-notifier:3002): DEBUG: error during dbus call: The name org.debian.apt was not provided by any .service files
> >
> The update service 'org.debian.apt' is missing, update-notifier
> applet is trying to connect to this service, using a D-Bus call,
> depending on the timeout specified by the update-notifieron this
> call, it may block for some time, but not up to several minutes,
> well try to disable this from the autostarted applications  and see
> if the login speed is better.
> 
... and I've now tried disabling the update notifier, no noticeable effect.

I'm going to put some debug output in the X startup sequence and see
if I can see what's going on.

This *may* not be a new problem (i.e. it may not be due to recent
changes) I have had slow startups before which I had put down to my
VirtualBox windows guest hogging the processor but I've turned that
off now so it can't be that.  I may have previously missed the
correlation between slow startup and power up.

Listen to this space .....   :-)

-- 
Chris Green