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Found the problem. the uuid for swap was wrong in fstab,

thanks to askubuntu.com/questions/612600/15-04-very-slow-boot.

Here is the part of dmesg that seems to identify the an 80 second time gap but I don't know what it means or how to solve. Please help if you can.
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[ 20.029532]...

Thanks ajgreeny. I had evince, I changed to evince-gtk it made no difference to my problem.

When I try to start Evince from deskyop icon it appears briefly then disappears.

If I start from a command line I get "~$ evince

(evince:2950): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_hide: assertion...

After many hours of struggle I solved this by deleting .gstreamer-0.10 from my home directory and then copying in .gstreamer from my 13.10 installation.
Hope this helps someone. (It is a 64bit...