Take the 2-minute tour ×  I just upgraded my xubuntu 11.10 to
12.04 and now, when I login into the GUI, I have to wait about 3
minutes before the desktop appears. Only the background image is
displayed. The login into the console works fine (with
ctrl+alt+f2)  Even stranger: If I login first in the console and
then in the GUI, it boots quickly. If I login first in the GUI,
switch to console and login, it takes 3 minutes to boot in the
GUI.  My machine is a thinkpad T420s.  share|improve this
question  2 Answers 2  I had a similar issue where logging in
would show just the wallpaper for about 40 seconds before
showing anything else, but subsequent logins were fast until the
next reboot. I also had the same behaviour where logging in to a
terminal first would make the graphical login fast, so it was a
once-per-boot thing.  I changed a few things in trying to solve
it but the probable culprits were either disabling IPv6, or
disabling the couchdb service. IPv6 is something I'm not going
to be able to use any time