I’ve been frustrated for the past few months, as my user account on my home desktop would take an intolerable amount of time when logging out just to show the logout dialog. I didn’t know what was causing it but didn’t really have the time to dig around the ‘net to find out what was up. My first search turned up nothing, so I didn’t “fix” it.
What compounded the frustration was that the kids’ user accouts were not affected this way (which was a relief, as I didn’t have to listen to any extra whining from them). Finally, last night, I decided to tackle this one.
Apparently, this is a known and unresolved bug. It seems that, in my desire to speed up my computer, I turned off a service that is causing this opposite effect. By turning off the Power Manager, I created this slowdown myself. I fifgured that there was no real need to run this daemon at startup, as I did not have a laptop.
Re-enabling the service fixed the problem, sort of. Now, I have an unneeded service running at start up. 
This seems to be a problem with me in Ubuntu 8.04 but not in Fedora 10.
Ever since I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy, I find that my laptop takes a lil bit of extra time both during booting up and shutting down. Even logging out, like you said. Am not really happy with the current performance, but since it’s not really affecting my work (and am just plain lazy), am just gonna let it take its own sweet time.
p.s. Eh? The submit button is blank. Am on Opera 9.62.
WTF? I have to check on that. I’ve not used Opera or a few months but it worked before (although the admin was a PITA to work with). I wonder what broke. I’ll be fixing it anyways if I get around to updating my comments page to accomodate WordPress’s new threaded comments feature. Thanks, Od.
Ever since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.26 on my Debian system, the bootup seems to take longer.
I’m on Kubuntu (Ignoble Impala, I think) and the boot up and shutdown times are pretty quick. Maybe Kubuntu is the superior version?
It only happens on Opera on my FreeBSD. The button is looking fine on Opera 9.63 on Ubuntu. On FreeBSD I tested on both linux-opera and native opera – button appeared with no caption. For some reasons I can’t access your website from my office. Uhmm.. I shouldn’t be browsing non-work stuff during office hours in the first place..
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, MrCorey!
Back at ya, od