on my netbook, I also had very long login times at first boot but it turned out that the preload script/program was using quite much CPU and keeps the disk busy for a while slowing down every other app (this is not a very good idea during boot anyway, despite its intentions!) -> removing its kernel module helped (actually I'm now using a Factory-kernel for which I didn't find a preload-kmp) On Tuesday 12 October 2010 20:57:04 s2_johnm wrote:

openSUSE 11.2, x86_64, KDE 4.4.4

I'm running 4.4.4. No problems. Login is very fast, and powerdevil can be started almost instantly. (note I have my root mounted on an OCZ solid state drive which is super fast.)

-johnm

On 10/12/2010 09:54 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:

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Several weeks ago KDE 4.4.4 started being very slow on first login for me - since then it just hangs for ~20 seconds during login, with no disk activity - more than doubling the normal login-time.

I thought it was probably just me and maybe related to using the KDS repo and I just lived with it. But a guy in #suse reported the exact same thing using the official packages.

If anyone on this list should happen to use 4.4.4 it would be interesting to know if they have the problem too? It would be quite disastrous if KDE login is this slow for everybody using the official packages.

It turns out the problem goes away if you disable PowerDevil in the KDE Service manager.

(Cold) starting PowerDevil via the Service Manager later is also extremely slow (~20 secs). The only thing I find in .xsession-erorrs which could be related is this - though I'm not really sure it's related at all.

Invalid D-BUS member name 'idle-hint' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'is-local' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'x11-display' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'display-device' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'remote-host-name' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'session-type' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection Invalid D-BUS member name 'unix-user' found in interface 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Session' while parsing introspection