Comment 272 for bug 439448

This is purely speculation, but judging from my own experiences, and from reading these comments. I have no programing abilities what so ever. Just an End User who wants this system to take off as soon as possible.

Doing anything to alter the startup time, like mounting multiple drives. having many more, or many less programs in your startup or installing large updates tends to cause this corruption.

Sometimes I have a near 100% success rate of causing this bug if I mount 2 or more drives (automatically) at bootup.

Based on the comment about GIMP, could this be a memory issue?