I also encountered this bug. It is extremely annoying and difficult to find the fix to it.
Besides delay when opening applications from the gnome menus/desktop, I also had long delays when openning the midnight commander from terminal or just the midnight commander editor (mcedit), some strange delays / random freezes while editing messages in Evolution - all fixed when I added the hostname back to the hosts file. All this started when I was trying to get samba to work, so I guess I added the workgroup in the network-admin, however I wasn't able to reproduce the bug this way again. Anyway, it's very easy to reproduce the bug by simply deleting your hostname from the hosts file. -- GNOME applications delay to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128521 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
