None of the autostart programs was the culprit. Certificate and key storage would not turn off, it just restores itself if you turn it off.
I reconfigured to use KDM as login manager and problem unchanged, GDM unlikely candidate. My dpkg log has a burst of activity over the last week, any of them could be the cause. My thoughts on Python in earlier post were wrong, it is starting normally. There was a Gnome Panel and panel Data update on the 9th of June (or i installed it on the 9th of June). -- gnome panels suddenly have a 25 second delay after session load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593226 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
