[ale] gksu launch speed

[Jerry Yu]

could you attach you strace here, the one with good DISPLAY?  from that, at
least we can see what is 'fd 3'.

On 10/4/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 09:21 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> > could you do 'strace gksu' and watch what the system calls are when it
> > pauses for that 5~10s, assume the boxen itself is decent and nslookup
> > works for the hostname and such?
>
> It's my work laptop (Ubuntu Dapper) fairly decent hardware.  Nslookup
> does not resolve the hostname, it's set to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts and
> external DNS systems won't have an entry for it.  Nslookup does resolve
> the IP address(es) assigned by DHCP... a well as the PTRs for those IPs.
>
> strace shows a bunch of these during the "hang time":
>
> read(3, 0xbff99310, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
>
> If I change my DISPLAY env to something strange, then run "strace gksu
> true" from that terminal, I do see a bunch of lookup errors and connects
> refused.  Much different than the EAGAIN errors when DISPLAY is set to
> ":0.0"
>
> Strange,
>
> -Jim P.
>
> >
> > On 10/3/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >         Is it just me or does gnome gksu normally take 5 or 10 seconds
> >         before it
> >         graps the screen/mouse/etc and prompts for root's password?
> >
> >         If it's not just me, any ideas on what to do to make it a bit
> >         faster?
> >
> >         Tia,
> >
> >         -Jim P.
> >
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