Bart Schaefer wrote:
You can fix *most* of this by making sure that there are entries in /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1, etc., but I was never able to get the problem to entirely go away in all circumstances.
OK - my /etc/hosts file contained the following EXCEPT for the last line (fqdn) added this morning:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost athens ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 192.168.15.2 jerusalem.mpeters.local jerusalem 192.168.15.5 laserjet.mpeters.local laserjet 192.168.15.23 athens.mpeters.local
Hopefully it was lack of fqdn in /etc/hosts - though that would be puzzling, as I don't run any dns that defines that host name, so why it would cause slowdown when I can't reach the outside world because of lack of fqdn that it didn't have anyway is puzzling.
Another possibility - I have the gnome weather applet running on the panel, it could not update obviously as it could not get outside local lan, I don't know if that would have triggered gnome/x11 slowness or not.