Lorenzo wrote:

John Newbigin ha scritto:

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Sounds like DNS.

At a guess, I would try adding your hostname to the /etc/hosts file and set either a permanent IP address, or use 127.0.0.1

John.

I agree with John: the communications between the server and the client under X are trying to resolve the hostname which fails and they have to wait for the DNS query timeout.

The solution is to put the hostname on the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts If you want to be able to call the "official" address, put the full hostname.domain on a separate line on /etc/hosts

I feel my english writing skills not adequate, so I write an example to explain better:

Don't apologize for it, your english writing is better than many people I know here in the US.