Comment 41 for bug 259385

I am not sure this is the same bug, but after login, I get a pause of about 20 seconds before the background image loads and then another 5 secs before the welcome sound comes. In the deamon.log, it seems to return the same "gnome.wm failed to return before timeout" error as others have been describing. Unlike what other people have been experiencing though, my system, usually, starts up after the 25-30 second delay, but my keyboard/mouse have frozen up a few times with a hard reset being the only remedy! Disableing Compiz-Fusion allows me to login and start up in 4-5 seconds.

Another thing I have experienced that might be related is that the window animations is not working at all. The rest of the Compiz effects are running just fine, but no animated windows.

The computer is a 6 months old Acer Aspire 5920G with a T7300 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and a GeForce 8600 GS (256 mb) upgraded directly from Hardy