VNC: Kde applications take 10 minutes to load

sylvaticus · 08-10-2007, 02:35 AM

Hello.. I have a powerful new server with Debian etch and I connect with it trought VNC (I run startkde & in .vnc/xstartup).

The problem is that most KDE applications (and KDE itself) take **10 minutes** to load.. once loaded they works normally.

I don't have this problem with gnome applications.. it looks like they are searching for something and then they go in timeout... but what are they searching for???

KDE stop itself for 10 minutes in "Initialising system services"..

This is the VNC log (IP changed):

Code:

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 - built Feb 26 2007 20:43:44
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc


Fri Aug 10 09:29:05 2007
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5900
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list!
L'opzione --login non è più supportata da questa versione di gnome-terminal; creare un profilo con le impostazioni desiderate e usare la nuova opzione --window-with-profile
startkde: Starting up...
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":0.0".
Failed to get list of devices
Xlib:  extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":0.0".
Failed to get list of devices

Fri Aug 10 09:29:24 2007
 Connections: accepted: 193.111.111.111::49314
 SConnection: Client needs protocol version 3.8
 SConnection: Client requests security type VncAuth(2)

Fri Aug 10 09:29:26 2007
 VNCSConnST:  Server default pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
 VNCSConnST:  Client pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
 VNCSConnST:  Client pixel format depth 24 (32bpp) little-endian rgb888

basileus · 08-11-2007, 02:48 AM

I don't think this has anything to do with X, but with KDE. Have you tried logging in to the server locally without using VNC? Does it work better? Anyways, the 10 minute wait seems like something's not responding and the timeout value is way too high. You could try connecting to the server locally and doing something like this:

strace startkde 2> /tmp/log

Then you can just open that file while it's waiting and take a look at the last line. It's probably waiting for some service to start. You can troubleshoot it further from there on.

Btw. if you want _really_ good remote X performance, you should consider FreeNX from http://freenx.berlios.de/. It's an excellent piece of software that is way faster than VNC, and the client works on Windows, Linux and probably OS X.

Hope this helps.