Slow login time from GDM to Gnome

Question

Hello everyone,
for a long time now I have been experiencing very slow login procedures. It takes about 40 to 60 seconds after I entered my password to get to Gnome shell (almost feels like Windows).
There have been discussions about similar problems (e.g https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=98901) and I have read a lot of them, but never found a solution.
Isn't there some kind of log file where I can see what's taking so long?
any help would be appreciated!
debazthed

Answer 1

Terminator wrote:GDM should have a log file..
there is a folder in /var/log that holds a couple of files:
$ sudo ls /var/log/gdm
:0-greeter.log :0.log.3 :1-greeter.log.1 :1.log.4
:0-greeter.log.1 :0.log.4 :1-greeter.log.2 :1-slave.log
:0-greeter.log.2 :0-slave.log :1-greeter.log.3 :1-slave.log.1
:0-greeter.log.3 :0-slave.log.1 :1-greeter.log.4 :1-slave.log.2
:0-greeter.log.4 :0-slave.log.2 :1.log :1-slave.log.3
:0.log :0-slave.log.3 :1.log.1 :1-slave.log.4
:0.log.1 :0-slave.log.4 :1.log.2
:0.log.2 :1-greeter.log :1.log.3
I tried :0.log and :1.log, but I don't know how to read them.. they have no timestamps or anything...
Any help?