<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Claude Jones wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200512182109.01927.claude_jones@levitjames.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun December 18 2005 8:18 pm, Jon D. Slater wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Any ideas what's up? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I doubt this is it, but I'll offer it because I just spent two days fighting the exact same problem on a fresh install of a different distro. The problem - it turned out that NDISwrapper was my culprit. I don't have all the issues fleshed out, yet, but, I throw this out since our similar events are so coincidental. In my case, I had NDISwrapper on my laptop to get my broadcom wireless to be able to use its Windows driver - when I configured it, I had it set to start on boot, and that's what threw it. It spent a huge amount of time trying to start wlan0 and was unable to (for reasons I'm still trying to understand), and that hogged all my system's resources - boot time slowed to about 15 minutes </pre> </blockquote> My boot time if fine. And X starts fine too (I get my login screen within a couple of minutes of booting). The problem starts as soon as I enter my login and password, then press enter. My disk access light comes on solid, and it takes 15 minutes to complete start my session. </body> </html>