Slow Login

[Paul Sweet]

Recently K12.04 has become slow to login. The dialog box where I type in my name & password pops up in 25 seconds or so, but I can't type anything into it and the mouse doesn't respond for another 40 - 50 seconds.

I read an earlier post with a similar problem, and installed the bootchart utility. The output of dmesg is attached. I'm guessing USB 3&4 are the problem. Any suggestions on how to find out what is wrong with them?

[SteveRiley]

Maybe something wrong with the Chicony wireless devices plugged in?

[Paul Sweet]

Thanks for the suggestion. I really miss the keyboard lights for caps lock & number lock, so I'm planning to replace the wireless keyboard & mouse with USB ones. I'll see if that helps.

[Paul Sweet]

I replaced the wireless keyboard & mouse with USB ones, and removed the wireless dongle. It recognized my mouse right away, but still took forever to recognize the keyboard.

Finally I remembered that a couple weeks ago I forgot to remove a flash drive before shutting down. I put a flash drive in, booted up, and everything was fine!

[SteveRiley]

Finally I remembered that a couple weeks ago I forgot to remove a flash drive before shutting down. I put a flash drive in, booted up, and everything was fine!

Without the flash drive, your computer boots slowlky, but with the flash drive, it boots normally?

[Snowhog]

Without the flash drive, your computer boots slowlky, but with the flash drive, it boots normally?

Sure, especially if the system is set to On Login > Restore previous session

[SteveRiley]

Right, if the previous session is expecting to find it, I suppose there can be a delay if the drive is missing. Hadn't thought of that. One of the first things I do on every new install is change that setting so that KDE starts with an empty session.

[Snowhog]

As I do also.

[Paul Sweet]

Thanks for mentioning Restore Previous Session. I hadn't noticed it before. I changed it to Start with Empty Session.

[Deborn]

I have almost the same problem. Very long delay time for kdm login screen , but it happens only when I restart the computer. I can log out from KDE and back in without problem. Mouse is also frezing at the login screen after restart.

username@host:~$ tail -4 /var/log/kdm.log:

kdmgreet(1900)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information obtained from ktimezoned
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /tmp/2133516341/.config/ibus/bus



I have tried the solution with empy session.

I have tried to remove .ICEauthority

I have tried to remove .Xauthority

I have tried to insall ibus

I have tried to insall hal, but it dont seems to start - do I need it?

username@host:~$ sudo start hal:

start: Unknown job: hal


dbus is running

My keyboard a steelseries 6Gv2 - usb wired

My mouse is a simple Logitec - usb wired



This problem happens after a fresh install of Kubuntu 12.04 , I did not have the problem before (upgrade to Kubuntu 12.04 from previous version).

Should I post any more log files?

Thanks in advance for all support.

[SteveRiley]

Where did you read that HAL might be a solution to your problem? Ubuntu and its flavors deprecated HAL several releases ago.

[Deborn]

Where did you read that HAL might be a solution to your problem? Ubuntu and its flavors deprecated HAL several releases ago.

I just tested as it was in the repositories.

Don't care about that then.

The problem occurred before I install hal , and it obviously not function (hal) on my system.
Anny help?

[SteveRiley]

These kinds of problems can be real mystifying. It might be useful to see a syslog. Since you've already tried reinstalling once, what if you try again, but this time with 12.10? Even though 12.04 is an LTS, there appears to be a disproportionately large number of desktop-related issues with that relese. Take a look at Launchpad bug 993187 for an example.

[Deborn]

These kinds of problems can be real mystifying. It might be useful to see a syslog. Since you've already tried reinstalling once, what if you try again, but this time with 12.10? Even though 12.04 is an LTS, there appears to be a disproportionately large number of desktop-related issues with that relese. Take a look at Launchpad bug 993187 for an example.

Ok, thanks for help so far.

Posted some log files, as attached files:

0_log.txt is the Xorg.0.log

aut.txt is the aut.log

dmsg.txt is the dmsg.log

kdm.txt is the kdm.log

[Deborn]

Heres my kdm configuration file also.

I have don four changes to it, to try to get rid off the login problem, who did not helped.

[X-*-Core]
TerminateServer=true

AllowNullPasswd=false

AllowRootLogin=false

[X-*-Greeter]
NumLock=On