After the long hald timeout (which doesn't happen every time), I seem to also get a long wait before the desktop initializes the menu and the icons (i get the desktop background with empty bars for the menus) (this may not be related). After waiting for a long time, the desktop comes through. However, mounting samba shares when referring to hostnames still doesn't work (haven't tried ip)
regards -- auto smbfs mount in /etc/fstab causes hald hang at boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/44874 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
