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[Bug 1450196] [NEW] unity-greeter takes very long time to load the wallpaper

 

Public bug reported:

When starting from powered down state, unity-greeter takes ~80 to 90 seconds to load the default wallpaper.During this loading time, entire UI is non-responsive giving the impression that OS has crashed.
Once logged in after  this issue, the loading problem does not occur if I log out and log in again.

How I arrived at this conclusion:
When Login screen became unresponsive, I dropped in to console mode (cntl + alt + F2) and tailed the x-0-greeter.log file in /var/log/lightdm directory. The rendering of wall paper entry was around the 80 second mark. Once I saw the wall paper loaded message, i dropped out of console mode and switched to GUI mode (cntl + alt + F7). Now i was able to login normally.

My guess is a problem with the driver for rendering/ problem in loading
the wallpaper from harddisk. Just wanted to verify with you guys if
there is indeed a bug or its just my laptop.

I tried changing the wallpapers as well - still the problem persists.
Once logged in there are no delays in any other operation (i.e no
problem with CPU/resources to cause the late loading of wall paper)

I use a Dell vostro 3500 - ubuntu 15.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: lightdm 1.14.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 30 01:58:44 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-27 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: lightdm (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug vivid

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Title:
  unity-greeter takes very long time to load the wallpaper

Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When starting from powered down state, unity-greeter takes ~80 to 90 seconds to load the default wallpaper.During this loading time, entire UI is non-responsive giving the impression that OS has crashed.
  Once logged in after  this issue, the loading problem does not occur if I log out and log in again.

  How I arrived at this conclusion:
  When Login screen became unresponsive, I dropped in to console mode (cntl + alt + F2) and tailed the x-0-greeter.log file in /var/log/lightdm directory. The rendering of wall paper entry was around the 80 second mark. Once I saw the wall paper loaded message, i dropped out of console mode and switched to GUI mode (cntl + alt + F7). Now i was able to login normally.

  My guess is a problem with the driver for rendering/ problem in
  loading the wallpaper from harddisk. Just wanted to verify with you
  guys if there is indeed a bug or its just my laptop.

  I tried changing the wallpapers as well - still the problem persists.
  Once logged in there are no delays in any other operation (i.e no
  problem with CPU/resources to cause the late loading of wall paper)

  I use a Dell vostro 3500 - ubuntu 15.04

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: lightdm 1.14.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 30 01:58:44 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-27 (2 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  SourcePackage: lightdm
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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