Long delay after logging in but before desktop appears

[Ron S]

try disabling your floppy disk in you bios..it work for me...hope it helps

Yes thanks moongia disabling the floppy did the trick.Desktop loads in a matter of seconds now.

[moongia]

Yes thanks moongia disabling the floppy did the trick.Desktop loads in a matter of seconds now.

no prob. glad it worked...i had that the same prob. with the beta 10.04..i just thought it was because it was a beta so no big deal,one day i went into my bios and saw my floppy was on,but i did not have one..so i disabled it,and the issue went away..lucky i guess..

[bobbythehun]

nvidia version 173; GeForce 7300GS card; monitor=samsung syncmaster

[PostWax]

Same problem here right after a fresh install of 10.04 64 bit. No solution so far but I have a bit more information that may help.

After fresh install when I noticed the 20 second delay. I kept loading the programs I wanted to have. One of them is AWN. After the next reboot still had the 20 seconds delay and purple screen but at the bottom was the AWN icons. From there I could run Google Chrome. It would load my home page while I was still waiting for desktop to load.

Still a nOOb but totally enjoying 10.04. Thanks for your efforts.

[gauchotodd]

After the next reboot still had the 20 seconds delay and purple screen but at the bottom was the AWN icons. From there I could run Google Chrome. It would load my home page while I was still waiting for desktop to load.

Interesting, no idea why that is but maybe someone else can address it for you.

But restart your computer, go into BIOS, and disable the floppy drive. I had the same delay on login as everyone else, and this fixed it perfectly. Takes one second now.

My other issue is that after grub chooses the OS, it sits on the black cursor screen for almost ten seconds. Any ideas why that is, or how to fix it?

[dementic]

Look here... I solved the same problem by removing KDE and booting on another kernel, then on mine usual kernel again.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1491226

[PostWax]

IT WORKED!

I do not believe it! Disabling the Floppy in the my Bios solved my "Boot time issue" I dropped from 20 to 25 seconds after the password to 10 to 12 seconds.

Thanks so much to Dementic!!!

[vek]

I disabled the floppy drive in the bios and it did not help.

It got rid of a read error dmesg but doesn't appear to have actually speed up bootup. I think it might be an nvidia issue but I'm not sure.

[texaswriter]

I haven't seemed to notice this on my Kubuntu 10.04 installation, perhaps because the floppy is already disabled. However, on my home pc which has Ubuntu 10.04 [Gnome], I have seen this occur when I boot up for the first time.

I will try checking the BIOS to see if that helps. Either way, I will try to post the results.

Edit: Yes, did the trick!!

[AlexMinsk]

Disabling floppy did the work.
Thanks!