Hi everyone, I've been experiencing a bit of an annoying problem lately, and was wondering if anyone else has ran into anything similar, and possibly found a solution. I'm running debian testing with gnome 3.4. The first time I start my GUI on a particular boot be it at boot up via gdm, invoking the gdm init script manually by hand after logging into the console or by using startx it takes an incredibly long time for the gnome-shell to load and become ready. I have auto-log in enabled and it takes about 50-60 seconds from the point I start gdm or startx until the gui is ready to use. I'm using a core I5 2.4 GHZ machine with 4 GB of ram so there is a bit of power. I presumed it should probably be quicker than this. Or is gnome-shell just really slow? I've also tried disabling different apps which I thought might be causing problems such as network-manager, but it really didn't change anything. I've also tried creating a fresh user account to see if there is any difference, but it took just as long. Finally, I looked through my syslog and /var/log/messages, but nothing particularly obvious appeared to me. So is this normal behaviour for gnome-shell? Otherwise any ideas where I should continue to investigate would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Daniel