This is a long shot, but perhaps this bug is related to Bug #110187. This bug primarily concerns wireless connectivity but one of the side effects when there is no working network connection is that login from gdm is very slow and then once the desktop is loaded, the desktop is slow. This maybe related to avahi (not sure)???
-- [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94048 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-desktop in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
