I can confirm that me and other people have experienced the problem about a wrong /etc/hosts file making GNOME's startup painfully slow, too.
-- setting static IP with network-admin makes GNOME startup slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/78493 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
