Two years ago the answer was identical. "and it seems to have drawn less attention for about one year" some person touched have applied the "patch" in /etc/hosts
"What's the link with the /root/.gnome2 stuff?" i don't know but the format of the files seems to be not established i' have tried, and spent a lot of time, to understand with my "in learning" linux meanings to resolve it. I'm a user, "And XUbuntu is not using GNOME, so that would be another bug." are you serious?: xubuntu is more and more using gnome features (gdm, gtk (obviously) and is slow for the same reasons (and the correct behaviour is solved by 127.0.0.1 localhost hostname)) why do not give to the community a plain view of the files implicated for an eradication of this slow big bug (i use sometimes zenwalk standard (xfce too) and the responsivity is incredible/ xubuntu ) i always will help on ubuntu forums but leave this distrib which walks on the steps of a proprio operating system by his cecity and not take in account the remarks of volontarist users. (hard on this remark) we are poor lonesome ubuntuboys amitiés and bye "Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance." No i do not try, because i want a stable operating system with few helpfull changes on the time: my life is on the planet, not inside a system ( soit-il opérant) friendly regards -- [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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs