<div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/1 Martin Sourada <<a href="mailto:martin.sourada@gmail.com">martin.sourada@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> So, I restored the /etc/hosts and the problem didn't went away (even after computer restart). Also it didn't get emptied again. However, recently I switched over to rawhide and have yet to see if the problem still persists. </blockquote></div> I have a reproducible situation on F8 that you might find interesting. 1) boot up into a NetworkManager enabled desktop, 2) connect to a wireless network that has dhcp 3) gnome-terminal behaves normally 4) disable NM 5) connect a wired network cable for eth0 6) enable the network service configured to start eth0 using dhcp to a different network segment than the NM wireless connected to. 7) watch gnome-terminal take +30 seconds to spawn a window. My /etc/hosts file never changes during these operations, and the environment variable $HOSTNAME continues to be localhost.localdomain, which is defined in /etc/hosts I am able to consistently reproduce the slow application problem, and doing an strace it appears to be related to socket file access in /tmp/.ICE-unix Forcibly restarting the X server fixes the problem, and on relogin things work. I'm pretty sure this isn't suppose to be happening if I switch from NM to legacy network script while logged in. But my F8 install could be jacked up in a way that I'm not aware, so I need other people to to reproduce. -jef