slow boot after upgrading

I'm experiencing the same issue, I'm booting off a Vertex 2 SSD and it takes around a minute to boot. When I boot in verbose mode it hangs after Waiting for DSMOS.

I am having the same issue. I have the same specs and a 750GB HD and it takes forever to turn on or restart my machine. I spends most of the time sitting on a white screes until after like 4-5 mins it finally goes to the log in screen. Please Help!

Same. Mine has 8gb ram, 2.66 core 2 duo and takes almost 3 minutes to start up.

Same issue, 2010 MacBook Air.

The increased time is spent at the grey startup screen with the Apple in the center. Does anyone else notice that the screen slightly changes the shade of grey after the circle progress indicator disappears, and then sits there for a few minutes before finally going to login screen?

Same here :s macbook pro 2011 8.2

Hi folks,

I experience the same behaviour.

But:

After deleting the Networkaccount-Server (System Preferences->Users->Login Options), with which I am connected in my company and which is obviously not reachable here at home, boot time speeds up.

I'm having SSD. Used to boot in 22 seconds. With Lion I'm booting exactly in 4 minutes and 35 seconds. What a big mistake to upgrade to this garbage. I wish I could get my money back. What a waste. I will go back on my Time Machine and get Snow Leopard for sure and never touch Lion again. I am very upset.

RoyalFlush AKs

I repaired permissions and cleared out the cache and it was back to normal (i.e. like SL). You can use Onyx for both, or just the caches and Disk Utility for permissions.

Dear all,

I have noticed that if you don't manually close all programs down befor shutting down, your boot time will increase. Makesure all apps are closed before shutting down/ restarting.

I'm running it on a iMac 27" - Mid 2011 and my startup time has increased by 10 seconds since upgrading!

Can anyone help? Lion should surely be faster!!

@mumonsid Worked for me as well. I went from 2-3 minute boot time down to my usual, about 30 seconds. Thanks.

@munsonid I am having the exact same slow startup problem as below:

Earlier it used to take 35 sec to startup and all login items (i have rescuetime & sugarsync) to load. So that immediately after 35 secs I could click chrome and it would run. But now it takes 50 sec to start up then additional 15 sec to start rescuetime & sugarsync and then only it opens chrome.

Could you please tell me how to clear the cache and repair permissions? I am not getting it exactly?

Thanks.

Hi,

I did both, repaired permission and cleared caches. But still no luck and startup take a healthy 70-80 secs whereas earlier it was just 35 secs!! I have even removed restore windows options...

Whats seems to be the problem? This is frustrating..