I'm not sure what was the error. If it was etc/host or etc/hosts (I didn't pay enough attention to it. If I would have known that it was about to solve my problem, I would have taken the error more seriously). Anyway, this is the content of "/etc/host.conf"
# The "order" line is only used by old versions of the C library. order hosts,bind multi on Hope this helps to solve the problem. -- [Gutsy] GNOME takes too much time to load during system boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for meta-gnome2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs