I had this problem, it was caused by my firewall blocking loopback traffic after i configured firehol (the firewall builder i use) poorly. After i fixed this and allowed all loopback traffic, gnome loaded properly again.
I tested to see if this was the problem by pinging 127.0.0.1 and seeing that it wasn't working. hope this helps. -- [Gutsy] very slow gnome startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128803 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
