Comment 9 for bug 969489

I get this with fglrx and intel driver as well. It seems that there's some race condition in the upstart scripts and the graphic card is not ready yet.

My desktop machine became virtually unbootable with a fast SSD so 10s (actually 5s is enough) delay was the only way to make it work. I can press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and log in and start lightdm by hand but others family members can't... so they have to wait a few more seconds.