Re: root can start "mahjongg" in 4 seconds, normal user in 39 seconds!

[Miles Lane <miles lane gmail com>]

On 1/31/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org> wrote:
> Miles Lane wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Today I have noticed that when I launch apps, I first see a "Starting
> ><progname>..." entry appear in the Window List applet.  Then, the
> >"Starting..." disappears and about thirty seconds later the program
> >window gets rendered.  I tested starting mahjongg as root from a
> >command shell.  This brought up the program in 4 seconds.  I exited
> >from the root login shell and tried launching mahjongg as a normal
> >user from the command shell.  It took over forty seconds for the
> >program window to appear.
> >
> >I thought maybe this was a font cache issue and tried running
> >fc-cache.  This did not help.  I saw that recently updated fontconfig
> >packages were made available for OpenSUSE for a similar problem.  Is
> >this a known problem with the current set of yum packages for FC5T2?
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >
> Are you running FC5test2 or do you have all the updates and thereby
> running Fedora development branch aka rawhide?

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