Sluggish bootup.

[Steven Vollom]

I have waited a bit to see if some kind of update would come out to cure this 
problem.  All those who were experiencing 40 second booting or less had a 
different experience from me.

It would take about 5 minutes for me to boot up in Jaunty after the Rc came 
out.  It was not like that during the Alpha and Beta stages of development.  
Additionally, it took about 5 minutes to shut down, and then usually a hard 
shutdown.  

During boot up, I would have to coax the boot procedure by tapping the space 
bar at certain points to get the boot to resume forward progress.  At one 
point nothing would help, and I would press Ctrl+Alt+Del.  Then rather than 
shutting down, the boot process would continue until the OS would open.

From time to time, after booting up, the Mouse would react sluggishly, then 
without warning or update or upgrade, it would return to normal and perform 
properly. 

When shutting down, I would get to that silent or pause situation just before 
shutting off, and would wait.  I don't like to press and hold the shut off 
button as a method of closing my computer.  I do not know if any harm can be 
caused, but it seems it may cause damage by not letting the system terminate 
orderly.  Nonetheless, eventually I would tire of waiting and hard shut down.

My Rc installation of Jaunty went flawlessly, however, somewhere in the early 
stages of using the release issue, these problems started occurring.  Being 
accustomed to multiple updates, I have waited for comments of similar action 
from other users, or updates that might rectify the problem.

Today, for the first time since installation of the RC, I booted and got the 
advertised rapid boot up.  It was amazing, it happened so fast.  Nonetheless, 
the system opened with a sluggish mouse and application opening problem, and 
my most used plasmoid stopped working, my hard drive partitions were not 
recognized for a period of time, and things appear gloomy again.

Should this statement be included in a bug report?  Is anyone having a similar 
experience?  Could what I have been writing here be a corrupted OS rather than 
normal bug problems?  

I no longer understand when to report a problem or which problems are 
appropriate to include on the List.  I want it understood that I have loved 
Jaunty from the first time I installed, and I am not complaining right now, I 
am just reporting what is happening to me.  The potential of this application 
is tremendous.  When it works properly, it is the best I have experienced.

Thanks for any reply.

Steven