More than a year later, we suddendly are experiencing the same problem using epiphany on gutsy.
The statement "probably few people are working with a misconfigured avahi" might be true, but our avahi-dameon was automatically installed and configured as a dependency for edubuntu-desktop. After stopping the avahi-daemon proces, epiphany starts just fine. -- Consistent 15-second hang with no window painting at launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52722 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