Anything GNOME related is slow
 

Ok, I haven't been around here much lately, but I think I may have posted about this issue once before...

When I install Mandrake 9.1 (the consumer version, not the free one, although the free .iso did this as well), ANYTHING related to GNOME is super slow. I mean, I can click on Nautilus to open, go downstairs, get a beer, come back up, and I won't have missed anything. Literally about a minute or two.

What's strange is that any non-GNOME program opens at warp speed. If I open GNOME terminal, it takes forever. RXvt is instant.

Now, when this happened to me before, I thought it was a bad hard drive. I was using two, with one just for storage of media, and the other with the OS on it. I installed Mandrake on the other hard drive, and it was perfect, and has been for the last 6 months or so (whenever 9.1 first came out).

Well, that hard drive that WAS working got a rather serious case of alzheimers, so I had to reinstall. I once again tried the hard drive that I had first tried before (it was still in my computer, just not hooked up), and it was super slow, so I went out and bought a new Seagate 80GB drive.

I installed the drive and OS, and I get the same thing. It's super slow. I instaslled it again. Same thing. I installed Red Hat. Red Hat works perfectly (well, as perfect as Red Hat can...:p ). I reinstalled Mandrake, and it's the same.

KDE works fine in case you're wondering, but I'm a hardcore GNOME guy. I tried switching to Red Hat, but there were more issues to work out than I care to deal with right now. I don't have a whole lot of time to be fussing with my computer. Plus, I PAID for my copy of Mandrake (since I had liked 9.0 so much before it), and I'll be damned if I'm going to throw away my $50 (or whatever it was).


Does this sound familar at all? Can anyone tell me where to begin? I'm kinda stumped here.

Try running gnome-terminal from xterm and see if you get any error messages onscreen while it opens. Also make sure your hostname is listed in /etc/hosts

You're beautiful!!! That was it! What's more, I feel stupid for not checking that, since that was always something I'd have to add after an install when I was using Gnome 2, as I would always get an error upon login.

You rule! If you're ever in my area, I'll buy you a drink :D

I'm geting a thirst already ;)