After a bit of experimentation I found the problem. (my problem anyway) For the heck of it I decided to run an strace on gnome-terminal from inside fluxbox to see if I could find the exact spot where the program would hang for 5 minutes until it would finally decide to load.
It seemed to be hanging on connecting a socket to localhost. I tried to ping localhost and nothing. Apparently the loopback interface wasn't added to /etc/network/interfaces during installation. I'm guessing this is because I skipped network setup during the install because I knew I had to install ndiswrapper and the linksys drivers before it would work. Adding: iface lo inet loopback to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. Gnome now loads up just fine. -- ndiswrapper in modprobe.d causes system to semi-hang during login https://launchpad.net/bugs/60313 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
