[ltp] programs take much too long to start

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 15:39:10 +0100, Moritz Karbach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> maybe you got an idea:
> 
> Sometimes almost all programs on my Thinkpad R51 take much too long to start. 
> That is for instance about 20s for starting vi. After this long time the 
> programs operate just as normal.
> 
> This happens both for root and my user. Normally the problem is gone, if I 
> just do a reboot. Strace doesn't tell something useful to me. If I start vi 
> on the "real" console (ctrl+alt+f1), it works normally.

export | grep SESSION_MANAGER

Maybe this variable is set and vi (I guess you mean vim in this case)
tries to use an X server, which it can't for some reason, and waits for
a timeout. In this case, just unset this variable.

Regards,
Tino