Robert, Thanks for this.
If you don't have another machine handy you might be able to figure out > what's going on using a tty on the same machine: once you get the login > screen up switch to a tty (ctrl-alt-F1 for the first one) and login > there, start top, switch back to the graphical login (ctrl-alt-F7) login > and then in the gap waiting for the panels to appear switch back to the > tty where top is running and see what the computer is doing. Although, I do have a laptop SSH sounded a bit beyond me, so I had a go with the tty option. However, the output from top didn't really mean much to me, other than there didn't seem to be any specific pattern of something hanging around for a long time. BUT after timing the delay twice yesterday (it took exactly 60s after hitting return on the password for the panel to appear both times) after doing the tty exercise, the panel is appearing in 6s. I have no shut down totally, and rebooted three times and its now 6-7s everytime. That's a couple of weeks I have been plagued with this, and there has been no known changes since booting yesterday and booting today, but it seems to have fixed itself. Thanks for everyones help. Graham
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