gedit suddenly opening extremely slowly

[DonnaFontenot]

I've been noticing for the past week or two that gedit is suddenly opening extremely slowly. I timed it and it averages around 30 seconds to open. This is true whether I'm simply opening to a new blank file, or opening an existing file.

I've tried closing everything (browsers, running apps, etc.) to make sure I didn't have anything using up too many resources, but that didn't help a bit.

I haven't added any new gedit plugins or anything like that. Just the standard ones, and only loading the same ones I've been loading for years. Wondering if some recent update to the core might be causing the slowdown. Anyone else seeing a super-slowdown with gedit recently?

Running Linux Mint 9 (Isadora), with 3 gigs of ram and dual-core amd processor, so the system isn't all that weak. Gedit version is latest in repos at 2.30.3

[dagon]

Try open it from the commandline to see if it outputs any messages (in the terminal).
Open a terminal and just type: gedit

[DataMan]

If you haven't re-booted since the problem was first detected, you might also want to see if you have a rogue gedit process running in the background.

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ps aux


To kill a process:

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kill -9 <process id>


Hope this helps.
-DataMan

[DonnaFontenot]

Interesting... I opened gedit via terminal, and after the 30 seconds or so, this showed up in terminal:


(gedit:15362): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.


So...I guess I now now where the problem lies. No idea how to solve the problem, but hey, it's a first step! Thanks

(And yes, I've rebooted several times, btw).

[oarevalo]

I've had the same problem on my Fedora box and finally was able to solve it. What I did was

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rm /home/{your user}/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

This file had references to files I had opened on an attached USB device that was no longer present; for some reason gedit was trying to communicate with the device or something, and that was causing the timeout. After removing the file gedit started opening as fast as always and didn't show the error anymore.

Hope this helps.

Oscar