My machines affected were also i7. For my main machine the OS is on the SSD while /home is on striped spinning media (similar throughput to SSD, higher latency).
The sleep from comment #68 fixed it for me too. Looks like some sort of race condition when loading things. -- Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/649809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs