[arch-general] Bash/term takes long time at first run each boot?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

>> When I run any terminal emulator for the first time after a reboot,
>> it takes a long time for Bash to come up, the window is blank for
>> 10-20 seconds.  On a quad AMD X4 with 4G RAM.  Started after
>> updates, don't know which ones.  Anyone got a suggestion, or a good
>> way to diagnose?
> I've had a similar problem in the past: after a reboot I'd try and log
> in and the prompt would hang for 10-20 seconds. It ended up being
> pulseaudio. I disabled autospawn in /etc/pulse/client.conf and it
> fixed the issue. You might try that?
>
> What's in your $TERM's config file? .bashrc, .zshrc, etc. Or, more
> generally, /etc/profile?
>
Thanks for writing :-)  I have turned off autospawn in 
/etc/pulse/client.conf; I don't think it changed anything.  (What does 
that do, anyhow?  pulse still runs...)

My .bashrc is:

    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    [ ! "$UID" = "0" ] && archbey -c white
    [  "$UID" = "0" ] && archbey -c red
    #PS1="\[\e[01;31m\]??[\[\e[01;35m\u\e[01;31m\]]??[\[\e[00;37m\]${HOSTNAME%%.*}\[\e[01;32m\]]:\w$\[\e[01;31m\]\n\[\e[01;31m\]???\[\e[01;36m\]>>\[\e[0m\]"
    export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/core_perl

my /etc/profile is similarly basic:

    # /etc/profile

    #Set our umask
    umask 022

    # Set our default path
    PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/core_perl"
    export PATH

    # Load profiles from /etc/profile.d
    if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
             for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
                     test -r "$profile" && . "$profile"
             done
             unset profile
    fi

    # Source global bash config
    if test "$PS1" && test "$BASH" && test -r /etc/bash.bashrc; then
             . /etc/bash.bashrc
    fi

    # Termcap is outdated, old, and crusty, kill it.
    unset TERMCAP

    # Man is much better than us at figuring this out
    unset MANPATH


  I do have my own script in /etc/profile.d (along with the usuals), but 
all it has is:

    export EDITOR=nano
    export BLOCKSIZE=1G
    alias yaourt='TMPDIR=/HD2/tmp ; yaourt'



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