Extremely slow after login....

[ksalter]

I did not notice this on Edgy...

I have two SMB mounts that point to a Windows machine on my LAN. These mounts point to shares which have all my music and pictures, therefore there are a lot of folders and files.

When I login to Feisty, the desktop comes up, but only partially. The Task Bar is there, but there are no icons on my desktop, nor can I click on the desktop. I can click on the Menu/Task Bar. There is no hard drive access.

After about 2 minutes, the desktop will finally come up with icons and everything is normal.

I notice that if I remove the SMB mounts from /etc/fstab and reboot, after I login the desktop comes up like normal, with no delays.

Therefore, something about the SMB mounts is causing the delay. I have tried moving them from out of my home folder to /mnt, and it doesn't matter.

Any ideas? Thanks....

[penguin.ch]

Re: Extremely slow after login....

At least to narrow down the source of trouble, you could mount the shares in question manually (by means of mount -v ... further reading).

[ksalter]

Re: Extremely slow after login....

At least to narrow down the source of trouble, you could mount the shares in question manually (by means of mount -v ... further reading).

Thanks for the reply!

Well, I put a noauto option in the /etc/fstab and rebooted. The desktop came up fine since they aren't mounted.

So I guess I'm stuck with having to mount these manually when I need to use them?

[javierrivera]

Re: Extremely slow after login....

Have you tried smb4k.

It's a samba network explorer and mounter/unmounter utility. It has an option to automatically mount all the shared resources used recently at start. As it starts after kubuntu booting, it could resolve your problem.

Javier.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Extremely slow after login....

So I guess I'm stuck with having to mount these manually when I need to use them?

It depends; you haven't answered my question so far: does manual mounting work? If it does: with or without delay?