For racoon it comes with the package racoon : i racoon - IPsec IKE keying daemon
For why is gnome getting sluggish, I think this may be related to many other "bug" reported as gnome being so when one as is lo interface misconfigured, or event I read once that one had such problems while having its wired network interface configured to something like "inet dhcp" that caused a long delay when he had no wire plugged. I am pretty sure that theses problems were introduced with gnome 2.20, but since there are a lots of packages that were changed I won't really be able to point out the gulty ones. Basicly for now I know theses things : There is a problem I did'nt have with racoon before (and using another software racoonhelper(third party opensource software) seems to be more reliable). When there is the smallest problem with network, gnome(or even only gnome apps, like trying to launch gnome-terminal under KDE) get sluggish. In the sluggish state, the system is just doing nothing : the apps allready launched respond normally, and the cpu usage is pretty low. Reagrds -- gnome very slow to launch (or apps very slow to launch under gnome) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164528 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs