Long boot times with blank screen since upgrade to lucid 10.04

[Andy London]

Binary package hint: plymouth

After the grub loader only a black screen is displayed, followed by "no signal input" until the login screen in shown. Note this takes longer to load than 9.10. After entering username+password the desktop takes a long time to load perhaps 30s longer than with 9.10. I'm using 195.36.15 nvidia drivers (6800GT AGP graphics card) which may explain the blank screen on boot: when I switch to any other tty (other than tty7) "no signal input" is displayed, but although I cannot see the screen the terminal is usable - I have successfully shut the computer down from tty1 whilst "blind".

Basically I want to know why it now takes so long to boot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 16b6cd506822595c4571fc97d0f25b16
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a84b4520a2427f8c2b
Date: Wed May 12 17:54:12 2010
DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c048 Logitech, Inc.
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 06a3:8020 Saitek PLC
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=00fae03f-02ca-4060-a3da-0c4385614c2f ro vga=775 quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
SourcePackage: plymouth
TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
dmi.bios.date: 04/07/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: NF7II series(Nvidia nForce-MCP2S)
dmi.board.vendor: http://www.abit.com.tw/
dmi.board.version: v0.1
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd04/07/2005:svn:pn:pvr:rvnhttp//www.abit.com.tw/:rnNF7IIseries(NvidianForce-MCP2S):rvrv0.1:cvn:ct3:cvr:

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version has died long ago; no more supported