Comment 10 for bug 625395

I have just started having this problem after doing an "apt-get autoremove" on my Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit system (Acer timelinex 3820TG with the dual GPU "switchable graphics").

Here's what my dmesg looks like:

[ 1.688349] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.799582] hub 2-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.799791] hub 2-1:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 2.075196] usb 2-1.5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 2.597199] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ 42.726500] udev[444]: starting version 163
[ 42.738288] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 42.802317] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: Warning: CPU TDP doesn't match expected value (found 25, expected 35)
[ 42.802341] alloc irq_desc for 18 on node -1
[ 42.802344] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 42.802357] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 42.802521] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled

So a full 40-second delay. All the while the hard drive churns away, and the cursor blinks on the screen; then an error message flashes up too quickly to read and then the plymouth splash screen appears.
The hard drive churning and the mounted filesystem notice make me wonder if it's related to the disk mount.
Must be some package I removed; if I can figure out which one it was, might help to locate this problem.