From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P5g51-0004m7-QA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:43:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E12E8E07B3; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0FAE07B3 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so915204fxm.40 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:42:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CX41FAD98NQauvrK2r8X1mYYk12Dqvue4fsdVtGGXj4=; b=s6Xbjx9iz12Z3JMboXP+D7OPTTwLnALVs1/vNk9/qzIdHP3rALlTlpH5pklcpue7RE BUu/TFbcigPVVSrnOYKpCLxDoGsBKp5CxLErSMMhLMaqqC2yUzVvJ0pKmmHHFyUm4HKo z2/Nd0Qfn5syrv+TMtwDFkRhOi6nufJbeR9FA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=COMlH4AnepwC4VX+o1Mq9xFOc0rqMnosp2Oxifs3K3JvHf65DnSGZTUN7KnAZaZdFU DcFgHXvmE7guUIgu4w845YBVwseaat1Kcc9EebLkGR+noJeCTa/U4B7E1oilbqV0IXj5 gxx5DyCgyOl4O7YdNBmFnmvWn8zLBrNMhiixQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.190.6 with SMTP id v6mr458668hbh.44.1286894551823; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.239.162.67 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:42:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:42:31 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Zr3qgX7Nl_xI_3vA8_7kx2DD5U0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Slow Login, Sudo, etc. From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0bf08bba-8456-4a37-9373-066f050c7eb6 X-Archives-Hash: 2e8aee0e64165798ab263b3237e9c6ae On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:38 AM, daid kahl wrote: > Hello, > > I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86. > =A0It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything > went smoothly. > > However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding > slowly. =A0This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration > files, but this week it's acting up again. =A0Before it was just su and > sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds). > But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line). > > As an example that I timed: su, it takes 20 seconds for the password > prompt to appear, and over 60 seconds for the login to authenticate > (assuming the correct password...it is a little faster to fail). > > What package(s) are most likely to be responsible for logins and > su/sudo? =A0I tried rebuilding (and also downgrading) pam, and I'm > trying some other things now, but no luck so far. > > I'm happy to provide any information, but this kind of problem is > nothing I have experience with, so I have no sense of what else to > mention. Recently Thomas Drueke posted about a similar problem under KDE. His solution(s) were to unset DISPLAY in the short term, and to use KDM (rather than startkde) in the long term. Maybe that'll help give you some clues to solve your problem too.