[Ti] Startup time revisited

[Michael Bigley]

>>Create a location, turn off all of the ports (modem, ethernet, IR), 
>>and restart. Just a thought, not very computerific...
>
>that's what I would do to debug this also...

Thanks for these suggestions, however I have confirmed that the start 
up issue is specific to my current user by both logging in as root 
and creating a new user. Both start up in the normal ~1.5 minutes.  I 
have deleted and recreated network settings in the current user with 
no apparent change.

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>Do you normally use a PPP connection for your network connectivity?

No, only when I travel... there is nothing plugged into the ethernet 
port and currently I have Airport turned off and I am connecting thru 
hard wire enet. I have a network setting that only has enet as an 
option.

>
>FWIW the first chapter of the book "Mac OS C for Unix Geeks" 
>(o'reilly) is devoted to the startup process. I haven't taken a look 
>at it yet, so I have no idea if it is any use...

This may be helpful, but I have determined that there are two steps 
to the start-up process:
- From the startup chime to log-in: this process is extremely fast 
and definitely improved in jag.5 (~ 1.25 minutes)

- Post-login (Finder-related); this is the process that takes 
painfully long for me, and according to the console, where the 
PPPExec attempts are made as well as a number of Windowserver errors 
occur. From the time my desktop backgrounds appear to the time I have 
total access to the finder is well over 2 minutes, sometimes 
approaching 3 minutes.

I have deleted numerous finder, system and network prefs with 
virtually no change in start up time, but lots of reseting of 
preferences ;-)

I have zapped pram, fixed permissions, ran fsck -y to no avail.

The Finder is definitely hosed as the nice white "aqua" menu bar at 
the top of the screen doesn't draw until the very end of this long 
process; IOW, all the menu icons are drawn on the desktop background 
until the Finder finally decides to show up.



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