Well, now I cannot find the specific bugzilla entry.. it was there a couple of days ago. I have not used bugzilla before so maybe it's been moved or something. The only one that even comes close is this one: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222516 I have not checked the "messages" file to see if I have similar log entries to what is described there, but the responses are along the lines of what I had to do. Here is as much as I know: I am using Suse 10.2 and running Gnome. The menu I am referring to is the new "Computer" menu that was introduced in SLED 10 and openSUSE 10.2 that replaces the previous hierarchical panel application menu. After booting and logging in, the panel loads tomboy, the time, the suse updater, volume properties, etc. the "computer" entry is the last to load and it takes upwards of a minute or two to accomplish this. Additionally, at random, the "computer" entry becomes non responsive to mouse click events. Luckily I can pull it up with the "windows" key, but when that occurs, it takes time to respond. As soon as I move the ".recently-used" and ".recently=used.xbel" files and rebooted, this problem went away. I have not had this issue in the last two days as a result. Looking at those two files in gedit, I see a very long list of programs and document going back a long time that are being tracked. Problem is, many may have moved. I am not sure if that has an impact, but I can't tell if it's having trouble parsing the file or if it's choking for some other reason. I am sorry that this is not more specific, but that is all I can relay about the problem. I guess I expected that since this problem shows on all 4 of my systems, that others were having it as bad as I have and that a patch would show. The bugzilla entry I cannot find was replete with others describing the same problem in addition to memory issues related to the new "Computer" menu. At this point I am good with simple information on how to effectively schedule a cron job to clear these file periodically.. Thanks, Clark On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 18:45 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
Hey Clark,
It would help us all if you could supply the bugzilla URL
Depending on which department is attending to the bug is import for us to know as each of the 3 major companies Novell, KDE, Gnome work at vary different rates and I have a good deal of experience on how log and more about the nature of the bug and a possible quick fix fr you.
As you know there really arnt a lot of different menu's in Gnome - They have a few very very large file and depending on what part of the menu you want to view dictates what part of the menu and which one is selected.
If this issue is really one of speed mixed with only slight application failure - I would not hold my breath for a fix.
Can you please elaborate on
The "Computer" menu on the control panel takes a LONG time to display upon boot and many times just seems to stop working.
Please describe what is happening during you boot or system start-up - from the first splash screen etc.. I don't think we understand what menu you want to access during boot?????????
Cheers Scott
Clark P. Case wrote:
I have been looking in the bug list for some time now and there is this annoyance (that has a bug report open) that I have about reached my limits with.
The "Computer" menu on the control panel takes a LONG time to display upon boot and many times just seems to stop working. I have tried one thing though. I moved my ".recently-used" and ".recently-used.xbel" files to a temporary directory and this seemed to help after a reboot. (no idea if it will last though).
So here is my question: Until the thing gets patched (since the last activity that I can make out on the bug was a month ago) how would I truncate the files or simply rotate / delete through a cron job? I looked at "logrotate" but am a novice on CLI matters. Any help/suggestions would be great.
Also I did a brief search against this archived thread and came up empty on these files or the bug.
Thanks in advance!!! Clark
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