I also face the same problem. As of now, I have found no stable solution. The boot from grub menu to the login screen is fast. But GDM takes too long to load. I notice the following: 1. GDM loads only nautilus of late. It used to load several other components as well. Is something broken? How do I know and what file do I attach as a report for this? 2. gnome-panel does not start at all. It is frustrating that it does not start at all. I wonder if you people face this or not. Let me explain. I am currently using Compiz-Fusion and full effect. But that does not seem to matter at all. This problem has been there ever since. 3. I had run into another problem prior to this: device-mapper: table: 254:1: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed which keeps getting spammed on my tty screen and prevents gnome from loading properly. I noticed this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. So I uninstalled evms as has been suggested in other bugs: eg: Bug# 115616 in linux-source-2.6.22 However, this problem does not seem to have gone at all. 4. I have tried this several times now and am actually scared to shut down my laptop since I am completely uncertain if it will reload. In fact, Pidgin loads automatically since I have it on the session start-up programs list. This time around I was saved because for some reason Gutsy was kind enough to give me a terminal at start-up by default. I loaded Firefox through that. I am a normal user and so don't know the command name to start the gnome panel. I searched on the net and found that it is 'gnome-panel'. Note that I am also a contributor to the CPAN pages and also contribute some software to the community. I still don't know all Linux commands. I completely disagree that a hacker must be knowing everything about this and this problem is simply bugging. I as even a hacker (I hacked several problems for my mom and dad at home on Dapper) think that sometimes the hacker community acts way too arrogantly in dealing with problems. Instead of helping people by using their expertise they expect people to do some debugging, but how will they do it if they don't know where to look for error messages at all!!? In this particular case for example, NO ERROR MESSAGE IS FLAGGED BY ANY PROGRAM except security modules. I ONLY FIND SOME ERRORS IN THE .xsession-errors BUT THAT IS A KNOWN BUG IN GTK+ and some messages in dmesg. There is nothing apparent at all that I can figure that is directly liked with GNOME-panel, but for some reason gnome is broken. This is an emergency problem and not something that needs 1000 confirmations before some hacker begins solving it. That way we will never have a solution. 5. I have not installed anything new. If Ubuntu installed something in the process of having installed Gutsy Gibbon I am not responsible and that is the sole responsibility of the developers. I myself am a developer of some Electrical Engineering CAD tools, but NEVER EVER release a new version without having had complete confidence on it. This is totally irresponsible of Canonical to have released a version of Ubuntu without any proper solution to these problems with GNOME. 6. I recreated the initramfs linux image for my platform. The output of my 'uname -r' : 2.6.22-14-386. This problem has not gone still. Summary: HP: V6102AU Everything on this works so far, except GNOME which breaks very often. VERY HIGHLY CRITICAL Inform me of the report files you need. dmesg output: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-386 (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 Sun Oct 14 22:36:54 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-386) [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003df00000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003df00000 - 000000003df17000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003df17000 - 000000003df80000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003df80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] 95MB HIGHMEM available. [ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available. [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f89d0 [ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 253696) 0 entries of 256 used [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096 [ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376 [ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 253696 [ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 253696 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 253696 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 190 pages used for memmap [ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 24130 pages, LIFO batch:3 [ 0.000000] DMI present. [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00F89A0 checksum 0 [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000F89A0, 0014 (r0 HP ) [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 3DF0FB99, 0038 (r1 HP RSDT 6040000 LTP 0) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3DF16D52, 0074 (r1 HP MCP51M 6040000 PTL_ F4240) [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3DF0FBD1, 7181 (r1 HP MCP51M 6040000 MSFT 100000E) [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3DF17FC0, 0040 [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3DF16DC6, 0182 (r1 HP POWERNOW 6040000 LTP 1) [ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3DF16F48, 003C (r1 HP MCFG 6040000 LTP 0) [ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 3DF16F84, 0054 (r1 HP APIC 6040000 LTP 0) [ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 3DF16FD8, 0028 (r1 HP $SBFTBL$ 6040000 LTP 1) [ 0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [ 0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 [ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) [ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:8 APIC version 16 [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) [ 0.000000] Processor #1 15:8 APIC version 16 [ 0.000000] WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored. [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) [ 0.000000] ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option. [ 0.000000] Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information [ 0.000000] Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 [ 0.000000] Virtual Wire compatibility mode. [ 0.000000] OEM ID: nVIDIA Product ID: C51-MCP51 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 [ 0.000000] I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. [ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs [ 0.000000] Processors: 1 [ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000) [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 251714 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=c7e91ba1-35fa-4431-ae80-ea1a30d5bdfa ro quiet splash noapic vga=792 [ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) [ 0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) [ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0 [ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) [ 0.000000] Detected 1607.414 MHz processor. [ 14.929541] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. [ 14.929566] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [ 14.929924] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) [ 14.930581] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 14.950228] Memory: 993992k/1014784k available (1929k kernel code, 20100k reserved, 877k data, 348k init, 97280k highmem) [ 14.950240] virtual kernel memory layout: [ 14.950241] fixmap : 0xfffa8000 - 0xfffff000 ( 348 kB) [ 14.950243] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) [ 14.950245] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB) [ 14.950246] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB) [ 14.950248] .init : 0xc03c0000 - 0xc0417000 ( 348 kB) [ 14.950249] .data : 0xc02e25d5 - 0xc03bda04 ( 877 kB) [ 14.950251] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02e25d5 (1929 kB) [ 14.950254] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [ 14.950302] SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 [ 15.030319] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3217.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=6435208) [ 15.030344] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [ 15.030350] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [ 15.030356] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [ 15.030451] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 00002001 00000000 0000001f [ 15.030459] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) [ 15.030462] CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) [ 15.030464] CPU: After all inits, caps: 178bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001 00000000 0000001f [ 15.030475] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. [ 15.030484] CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 stepping 02 [ 15.030489] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 15.046841] Early unpacking initramfs... done [ 15.439164] ACPI: Core revision 20070126 [ 15.439241] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found. [ 15.441455] ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0ca0) [ 15.500149] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 15.500226] Time: 4:29:28 Date: 10/11/107 [ 15.500247] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 15.500317] EISA bus registered [ 15.500332] ACPI: bus type pci registered [ 15.515837] PCI: BIOS BUG #81[49435000] found [ 15.515842] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [ 15.515844] Setting up standard PCI resources [ 15.517605] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT [ 15.517907] ACPI: EC: GPE=0x10, ports=0x66, 0x62 [ 15.519535] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [ 15.519538] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) [ 15.519553] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing [ 15.525794] ACPI: EC: GPE=0x10, ports=0x66, 0x62 [ 15.525846] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [ 15.525854] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [ 15.526996] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:10.0 [ 15.527024] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] [ 15.527123] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P0._PRT] [ 15.527154] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR1._PRT] [ 15.527185] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR2._PRT] [ 15.558131] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.558311] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) [ 15.558476] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) [ 15.558639] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.558801] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK1E] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.558963] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK2E] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.559126] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK3E] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) [ 15.559288] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK4E] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.559451] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) [ 15.559614] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) [ 15.559777] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS0] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11 14 15) [ 15.559939] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS2] (IRQs 5 *7 9 10 11 14 15) [ 15.560101] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) [ 15.560263] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.560425] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.560586] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.560748] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPID] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 15.560919] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] (IRQs *5 7 9 10 11 14 15) [ 15.561082] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSI1] (IRQs 5 7 9 *10 11 14 15) [ 15.561167] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [ 15.561177] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 15.561186] ACPI: bus type pnp registered [ 15.563390] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices [ 15.563392] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered [ 15.563396] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [ 15.563442] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 15.563446] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report [ 15.563533] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [ 15.563535] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [ 15.563587] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xffc00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved [ 15.563591] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved [ 15.563595] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff could not be reserved [ 15.563598] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x0 could not be reserved [ 15.563604] pnp: 00:02: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved [ 15.563610] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved [ 15.563613] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1080-0x10ff has been reserved [ 15.563616] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1400-0x147f has been reserved [ 15.563619] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1480-0x14ff has been reserved [ 15.563622] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1800-0x187f has been reserved [ 15.563626] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x1880-0x18ff has been reserved [ 15.563629] pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x2000-0x203f has been reserved [ 15.566277] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. [ 15.593889] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0 [ 15.593892] IO window: 4000-4fff [ 15.593896] MEM window: b3000000-b31fffff [ 15.593899] PREFETCH window: d0000000-d01fffff [ 15.593902] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0 [ 15.593903] IO window: disabled. [ 15.593906] MEM window: b3200000-b33fffff [ 15.593909] PREFETCH window: disabled. [ 15.593912] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:10.0 [ 15.593913] IO window: disabled. [ 15.593917] MEM window: b3400000-b34fffff [ 15.593920] PREFETCH window: disabled. [ 15.593932] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 [ 15.593938] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64 [ 15.593946] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.0 to 64 [ 15.593958] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 15.630293] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [ 15.630392] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) [ 15.631265] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [ 15.631501] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) [ 15.631504] TCP reno registered [ 15.642398] checking if image is initramfs... it is [ 16.242255] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 [ 16.558558] Freeing initrd memory: 7800k freed [ 16.558640] Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1 [ 16.558885] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [ 16.558897] audit(1194755369.552:1): initialized [ 16.558945] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages [ 16.560498] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [ 16.560512] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [ 16.560597] io scheduler noop registered [ 16.560599] io scheduler anticipatory registered [ 16.560601] io scheduler deadline registered [ 16.560618] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [ 16.560634] Boot video device is 0000:00:05.0 [ 16.778203] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 [ 16.778225] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability [ 16.778228] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0:pcie00] [ 16.778282] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64 [ 16.778302] assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability [ 16.778305] Allocate Port Service[0000:00:03.0:pcie00] [ 16.778406] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 17.131469] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [ 17.153299] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [ 17.154325] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [ 17.154491] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 [ 17.154553] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 [ 17.171089] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [ 17.171094] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [ 17.171235] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 17.172153] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [ 17.172159] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1 [ 17.172162] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2 [ 17.172164] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 3 [ 17.172166] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4 [ 17.172179] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [ 17.172262] TCP cubic registered [ 17.172272] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 17.172292] Using IPI Shortcut mode [ 17.172463] Magic number: 15:204:464 [ 17.172812] Freeing unused kernel memory: 348k freed [ 17.210099] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1 [ 18.459381] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized<5>audit(1194755371.452:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=1356 [ 18.468966] fuse init (API version 7.8) [ 18.475604] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module. [ 18.494057] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (63 C) [ 18.510096] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: