Subj : login delay
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Tomislav
Date : Tue Oct 12 2004 03:22 pm

Hy everyone, I have a login question...

When I log in with correct information i get a ~10 second delay during which there's no 
disc activity (or, as far as I can recall, any CPU activity). Then xfce suddenly loads in 
~2 seconds and everything works fine.
The same thing happens when I log into the console instead of X: I still get a delay, and 
not only when I log in, but also when I log out.
And now the really fun part: this only happens when I'm not logged in: if I'm logged in on 
tty0, for example, there's no delay on tty1 and so on. This behaviour is user independent 
(I created a new user and got the same symptoms).
PAM documentation is clueless, I didn't find anything problematic in my .profile and 
related scripts, /var/log/auth shows clearly that logging in takes ~10 seconds, but 
doesn't give me a clue as to why...I still have to look at /etc/profile (or whatever it's 
name is), but to me it seems like waiting for some sort of a timer, maybe an error 
recovery procedure.
Ideas, comments, suggestions anyone?

Thanks,
Tomislav

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