Bug#508807: gnome-desktop-environment: New windows don't show up until DNS resolver unfreezes

[Jaime Alberto Silva]

No, localhost was already there but I had to add the machine name to
/etc/hosts like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 inspironjaime

Where "inspironjaime" was the name I gave to the machine at install time.

This problem happened when the name resolver was in a state in which it took
long times to resolve any name or fail, like when the machine is connected
to a LAN but can't reach a DNS.

It seems like GNOME was trying to resolve the machine name every time a new
window was opened, by adding the machine name to /etc/hosts as mentioned it
was guaranteed to have an instant response so it didn't get delayed.

I'm sorry but I can't check if this is still happening because now I'm using
KDE4 on all my machines and purged GNOME (I got tired of all this .net -
mono stuff around and all the cumbersome and unknown - no one knows where
they are - config files and registers that reminded me Windows)


Jaime Alberto Silva Colorado
Ing. Electricista
Gerente
SG Automatización Ltda.
Pereira \ Risaralda \ Colombia
http://www.sgautomatizacion.com


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com>wrote:

>  As a workaround I've added the hostname to /etc/hosts with an IP like
>> 127.0.0.2 (a loopback device address)
>>
>
> Does this mean you did not have your localhost added to /etc/hosts before?
> Please post your complete /etc/hosts file here.
>
> Does the problem still persist with a recent Debian GNOME setup?
>
>  - Fabian
>
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