Confirmation, on an upgraded 12.04 to 14.04 is no delay from boot process to unity-greeter and loaded desktop background after login. Only unity itself with launcher and panel takes a while to load.
** Changed in: unity-greeter (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/971717 Title: Delay when loading unity session Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The delay is bad on reboot and worse on cold boot (pc and laptop). Not sure which app process actually is responsible, but both have amd video cards 4350 and 4200 using radeon driver. Both use custom background which is in 'pictures' folder. From reboot, after login to user account it takes up to ~ 20 sec. until Unity is displayed, but never under 15 sec., from cold boot it takes ~ 26 sec. never under 20 sec.. Guest account takes ~15 sec. Nothing obvious happens during the delay, it may take a while until the login screen turns into plain user session background, from there user is waiting patiently until the rest of the desktop is completely displayed and ready to use. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: lightdm 1.1.9-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Apr 2 18:39:37 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120204) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/971717/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp