Comment 24 for bug 151544

I believe I am having the same problem. Boot to GDM is great, maybe even faster than Feisty. But from login to usable desktop is at least twice as slow as Feisty, even without the splash screen (which I guess was removed to help desktop load times?). It's not a minute or more like some people are reporting, but it's definitely a regression from feisty.

I'm running a clean install of Gutsy on a dual core intel machine, 1GB RAM, integrated intel video. Desktop effects enabled.