Xfce... slow... to start...

[Igor Zakharov]

Thanks, André!

Clearing saved session AND unchecking the box that saves the session on logout seems to have fixed it.

I've also installed the git versions of xfce4-session and xfwm4, don't know whether or not that was necessary.

Regards,
Igor

08.09.2020, 17:57, "André Miranda" <andre42m at gmail.com>:
> Hi Igor,
> Did this problem start after updating xfce4-session? Which version are you using?
>
> Unable to launch "./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd" sounds suspicious, it's like session is trying to run xfsettingsd from its source folder (relative path), try clearing saved sessions.
>
> Cheers,
> Andre Miranda
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:53:56 -0400
>> From: Igor Zakharov <f2404 at yandex.ru>
>> To: Xfce general discussion list <xfce at xfce.org>
>> Subject: Xfce... slow... to start...
>> Message-ID: <510011599507926 at mail.yandex.ru>
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>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Xfce is starting very slowly for me since recently: it takes like 2 or 3 minutes for the desktop to appear after I've entered my password in lightdm.
>>
>> There is a whole load of similar messages in .xsession-errors file.
>> Looks like xfce4-session is waiting for something ?
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): GLib-WARNING **: 10:59:33.994: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): GLib-WARNING **: 10:59:33.994: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
>>
>> [ ... 400 kB of similar messages skipped ... ]
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): GLib-WARNING **: 11:01:18.051: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): GLib-WARNING **: 11:01:18.051: GChildWatchSource: Exit status of a child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). See the documentation of g_child_watch_source_new() for possible causes.
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): xfce4-session-WARNING **: 11:01:18.261: Unable to launch "./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd": Failed to execute child process “./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd” (No such file or directory)
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): xfce4-session-WARNING **: 11:01:18.343: Unable to launch "./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd": Failed to execute child process “./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd” (No such file or directory)
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): xfce4-session-WARNING **: 11:01:18.397: Unable to launch "./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd": Failed to execute child process “./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd” (No such file or directory)
>>
>> (xfce4-session:17047): xfce4-session-WARNING **: 11:01:18.423: Unable to launch "./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd": Failed to execute child process “./xfsettingsd/xfsettingsd” (No such file or directory)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Igor
> ,
>
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