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    Having seemingly sorted a recent problem with a poorly-behaved kate, I now have the emergence of a further booting problem (I mention the kate thing in case they are related). After putting in my login details the next screen (don't recall its name but its the one with the gradually fading-in device icons) seems to work then freezes. After about five minutes my desktop starts to emerge - initially with a black background and only the desktop icons showing - then gradually everything else. Some time later it all settles and responds normally. My guess is that some boot up/ initial desktop process is trying to load (ala the kate problem) and I get nowhere until it is resolved.

    I have checked my startup - nothing there that shouldn't be (no scripts except the gtk2 default one) and my processes do not seem to have anything odd. I ran 'top' and from that it looked like nepomuk was hogging a lot, but when i killed it nothing obvious changed.

    Not sure what other information you'd need to diagnose this. Any help appreciated

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    You could try with the bootchart:
    Description: boot sequence auditing
    bootchart allows you to audit the boot sequence of your computer and
    generate a pretty chart of the processes run, including how long they
    took and how much CPU and I/O they used...
    Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting
    ...to see how fast a machine is booting and to pinpoint where the bottlenecks are...
    Install the package: bootchart. Restart and look to the /var/log/bootchart. There should be the log files tarball (.tgz) and the bootchart picture.

    At here:
    Last edited by OneLine; Jun 15, 2012, 04:11 AM.
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      Thanks for that - well worth noting. I had to re-install after having a look at my chart - it had so many spikes and lags that I could make no sense of any particular fix. In the end I went for a fresh install and thats okay. Will be using bootchart to monitor my install from now on. Thanks again!

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