On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman <jeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I run any terminal emulator for the first time after a reboot, it takes > a long time for Bash to come up, the window is blank for 10-20 seconds. On > a quad AMD X4 with 4G RAM. Started after updates, don't know which ones. > Anyone got a suggestion, or a good way to diagnose? I don't have any such problem on a fully updated system. I'd check your profile for any commands that are taking a long time to execute. ~Celti