Can't recall having changed my startup scripts. What I have done though that made this start happening was that I moved my HD to a new machine.
According to my /var/log/daemon.log it takes about 25s for dhclient to acquire an IP address on the new machine. Since that's unusually long, I'd guess there's a race somewhere in the startup scripts that isn't visible unless DCHP is really slow. -- GDM starts before home directories mounted https://launchpad.net/bugs/82617 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs