slow boot after upgrading

Airbook model winter 2010, 1.86 GHz, 4GB Ram, 128 SSD actually Lion.

After solution of long time boot (my article before about boot time 4-5 minutes) now boots in 14-15 seconds from power on button to login screen, shutdown 3-6 seconds and restart from Lion back to login window 19 seconds.

I love SSD, best upgrade I probably ever made.

"Is there any way to find out what Lion is doing or waiting for?"

Press cmd-v during the start-up chime. This will give a verbose log output to the screen during the boot process. Or, go to /var/logs/kernel.log and peruse it to see where there is a long delay in the timestamps.

For me, the nstat-lookup step takes 47 seconds to fail when booted as 64bit. Only takes 1 second when booted as 32bit. This only happens when using an OS X Leopard Server as the OpenDirectory / accounts server and booting to a 64bit kernel. (Might happen with other OpenDirectory/ActiveDirectory setups, but Leopard is what my server still is.)

I have submitted a bug report, but would be interested in seeing how many others are encountering this same thing.

BTW, Little Snitch 2.4 is not a problem for me. (Removed it while tracking down the issue, no affect.)

Deleting the Network Account Server under System Preferences->Users&Groups->Login Items worked wonders for me. Went from more than 2 min. boot time to just 18 sec.

Yeah, but that is the bug. (Only in the 64bit kernel.)

You do that and you no longer are using the capabilities of a "Network Account Server".

I do use those abilities. Extensively.

And I tried delete and recreate a new connection/bind. No joy.

Hi Ronald,

I agree with you that this is serious bug. I make some other tests and I have near the same results as you with nstat-lookup step and 64bit/32bit - but I still using also as you Leopard as server, to Lion I will upgrade next week on server side.

I agree with you, that delete Network Account Server as I described yesterday is not "optimal" solution, but after you can works with notebook as before with fast start and you can join to Network Account Server later again...

And as I found on internet in several forums, blogs etc... many users after upgrade to Lion have this time-boot problem. If they delete Network Account Server settings they can again work "fast". Not optimal, but I think better as restore SL back on the computer...

I hope that Apple will solve this very soon in update, many users waiting for ...

Howdy, Sairoong,

"but after you can works with notebook as before with fast start and you can join to Network Account Server later again..."

I understand that approach. Not too practical when supporting four desktops and two laptops using the server assets constantly. For now, my Lion users must just live with the boot delay when they must boot rather than just sleep. (I've seen no delays when coming back from sleep.)

I've started researching the Leopard to Lion Server upgrade while skipping Snow Leopard. (Wasn't willing to pay the $500 to upgrade to SL Server and for sure not willing to pay it for a 'stepping stone'.)

Sounds like you are on a faster track than I will be to make the server upgrade. Would be interested to hear how it goes for you.

Please be sure to reply here if that solves the boot delay problem.

I had the same problem. Lion client joined to a Snow Leopard server has 2 min to boot. Joining a Lion server is faster, but still slower then before with Snow Leopard client and SL Server.

There is a massiv bug in Lion.

i am very very slow too, mbp 2011.

i had repaired the permissions and cleaned the caches, but seems it takes no effect...

Hi there,

I do not have any Network Account Server setup and my option shows "Join" only under network account server. So I gues I am good there. But still the MBP 2011 takes more than a min to startup.

Now I am measuring time till when the desktop appears and immediately I click the chrome icon and the browser opens. Earlier in SL when the desktop appeared after startup the rescuetime & sugarsync icon (my login items) was already there in status bar. So immediately if i clicked chrome icon the browser opened. This entire bit from pressing power button to chrome open tool 30-35sec.

But now first desktop appears after startup without the rescuetime & sugarsync icon (login items) in status bar, then if i click chrome icon it just keeps bouncing untill the rescuetime & sugarsync icon appear in the status bar. It takes 20 sec for rescuetime & sugarsync icon to appear in status bar after the desktop appears and then the jumping chrome icon stops and the browser opens. So this entire thing is taking around 70sec.

Still awaiting in great hopes to solve my problem..

I'm amid a similar problem where it takes 10-15 minutes for my MBP (late 2008 15 inch) to boot. I've

a) fixed the disk permissions,

b) cleared the cache etc

and otherwise followed the advice by others here.

There is only one disk accessable to my MB pro so that's all we see and I don't have Network Accnt Services.

On the verbose boot, it starts running fsck_hfs on the boot volume (Journaled HFS+) each time and that's where it takes the longest amount of the boot. fsck_hfs isn't giving me any verbose output through this. Then it does a little more verbose logging (network, the Parallels licensing etc) but is much faster. Then I get about 30-45 seconds of the white apple screen and then the login.

What's causing this problem, a lot of people seem to be getting hit with this slow boot time.

Sairoong,

Thanks so much for your reply about the network server. Previously in SL, I had been joined to a Mac Mini Server that I removed from my network just a couple days ago. I pulled it from the network server logon in User Manager and now I got my quick boot back! You rock. Thanks again.

that did the trick

I have the same experience after i upgrade to OS X Lion.My suspect is maybe due to bug in the Lion OS.

My temporary solution is to disable the login user and password.Under system preferences go to login options.Under colum Automatic Login,click administrator which is you.DO NOT select OFF.Your MBP will startup without asking any password.Apple engineer have to look into this matter.Hope they find solution fast.

That saved me about 10s - the time it takes to click on my user icon and enter my password.