The "schizo" is back to Slackware (12.1). After a few false starts, I have just completed a "full install" of 12.1. The thing that is jumping out at me is the slow startup of X and KDE. From the time the screen first goes black, the time to the login window is easily 2-3X what I have seen on any other distro.

When using "switch user", the delay is--if anything--even longer. On at least two occasions, I had to reboot after attempting to switch user.

Any clues?

Some quick ideas:

1. Improper drivers, temporarily try the VESA drivers or if using nvidia components, the nv driver.
2. As you are starting from runlevel 4 (KDM login manager switch user option is available only then), try starting from runlevel 3 (startx).
3. Temporarily rename $HOME/.kde and start X/KDE. KDE will create a new $HOME/.kde and you'll suffer the stupid bouncing cursor, but you'll discern whether the hurdle is in KDE user config files.
4. From the command line, flush all the usual KDE cache crap: /var/tmp/kdecache-$USERNAME
5. cat /dev/null > $HOME/.ICEauthority
6. cat /dev/null > $HOME/.Xauthority
7. rm -f $HOME/.DCOPserver*
8. Start from runlevel 3 and pass the -logverbose 10 and -verbose 10 server arguments to startx.
9. grep '(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
10. grep '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
11. KDE is snotty if the network is not working correctly --- verify no DNS lookup or IPV6 issues.
12. Check Control Center, KDE Components, Service Manager for unnecessary services.

Has Schizophrenic 0.1 made it into Distrowatch's Top Ten yet?

If you follow the traffic at LQ, you'll see that it is off the top of the charts.......Distrowatch just chooses not to show it.....

Woodsman;
Thanks for some interesting tips---will try tonight.

Dual boot Schizophrenic 0.1 with Paranoid Linux:
http://paranoidlinux.org/