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I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 via update from 14.04. I'm using gnome-shell 3.18.4. When I want to log to my gnome shell session the login is very slow, it takes more than 1 minute where the the only thing displayed is the wallpaper and then the gnome-shell session appears (the boot sequence works fine, although I don't see the Ubuntu Icon that should be displayed during this sequence after Grub, it is quick, the problem is after the login screen). Here are a few facts:

  • It works perfectly when login to Unity
  • After login to unity and ending the unity session it works perfectly when I login to the gnome session.
  • I removed all gnome extensions and this does not change the problem
  • I removed .gconf .local and .config and this does not change anything
  • Here is the .xsession-errors:

openConnection: connect: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type cannot connect to brltty at :0

  • I deleted .Xauthority and .ICEauthorithy but this did not solve the problem
  • I looked on the web but I have serious difficulties to understand what people say about this type of problem and what to do.

My computer is an HP EliteBook 840. Any help would be welcome, thanks !

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Solved, this was a problem with alsa.

Here is what I did.

dmesg | less

gave me a message "error"

snd_hda_intel 0000:03:00.1: Disabling via vga_switcheroo

that I could locate to happen just before login thanks to the timing. I looked on this webpage: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1460933#p1460933

I thus created a file

/etc/modprobe.d/my-alsa.conf

in which I put the only line

options snd-hda-intel enable=0,1,0

Now the problem has disappeared. That being said the sound via displayport does not work anymore but this is a minor annoyance.

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