when i had the same prob this morning i moved my homedrive and freshed it up with a brand new directory so i had a clean config ...
now when i restarted 'gdm' i got the message that my $home was created and then after i logged in it took me again a while ... now when i went back to tty1 to look at my 'top' i noticed that 'gnome- panel' was using 97% CPU ... i don't think that's kinda normal ? hardware specs for this computer : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 5gb ram nvidia 7xxx (pci-x) -- [Gutsy] GNOME takes too much time to load during system boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for meta-gnome2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs