I am experiencing the same problem in a fresh amd64 installation of lucid. The bug persists after upgrading to maverick. I would paste the strace of gnome-session and X applications but is the same as the ones pasted above (apps get stuck reading from /tmp/.ICE-unix and gnome- session gets stuck in a call to poll)
Adding my local host-name to /etc/hosts did not help. Neither did disabling ipv6. In my particular case, the problem only happens when connected to the internet through wifi (everything works while connected through my ethernet card or if I disable the wifi interface). -- Connection to ICE-unix/.. socket times out so programs take minutes to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58171 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
