I have the same problem and actually see similar behaviour. I have "docky" installed and after loging in it almost immediately starts. Just my desktop and my panels take quite a while to appear.
I upgraded from karmic to lucid. -- slow transition from gdm to gnome desktop in ubuntu lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551712 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs