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

Corin Schedler corin at dubdromic.com
Mon Jun 11 09:39:37 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:13:09PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> 
> >>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...)

Autospawn just allows the pulse 'server' to be started when an
application that supports pulse is started. For me it was starting
with MPD...and for some reason taking its sweet time doing it. Never
did figure out why.

I don't see anything super-obvious in the files you posted. You might
just start removing things: start with .bashrc and work your way up to
/etc/rc.conf. That's what I did. Sorry it's not more specific.


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