Extremely slow startup in Lion
I'm experiencing the same problem that Sairoong and a few others mentioned in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3191923
Grey apple logo screen comes up, then the spinner sits for about 4 minutes and my fan starts to ramp up in speed, before the background colour suddenly changes, and then the mouse cursor appears. About another minute later my desktop appears (no login page, as I have automatic login).
So overall about 5 minutes, which is appalling. And scary with the fan noise. I've tried looking into Sairoong's Network issue, and tried repairing disk permissions etc, but that is not the case here. My computer is completely vanilla, as I did a clean install of Snow Leopard before upgrading to Lion. I've added nothing so Spotlight shouldn't be indexing much either.
I'm on a 2009 MacBook Pro, and really do not want to go through the process of reinstalling if I don't have to, as it took about 5 hours or so last night.
Please help!