I am willing to debug, but I am not sure what you need. No actual error occurs. I believe it is more an application timeout issue. With a stock feisty hosts file, some applications take a little longer to start than if you changed the hosts file as described. I timed it with Firefox, and it was a significant change. (About %60 reduction in startup time) It had not occurred to me that there was a problem before this "fix." I also noted similar behavior on Edgy. I have not tested this on Dapper, which has a different default hosts file. (It has the short name in both places)
Dapper hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost server 127.0.1.1 server.dnsalias.net server # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts -- [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration https://launchpad.net/bugs/94048 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
