OpenOffice startup time (when network is up)

[sean]

Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I just discovered the reason why OO.o starts very slow on my FC4 laptop.  If 
> I'm connected to the LAN and I start Writer, it takes about 25 seconds. When 
> I click Writer, you'll see the loading 'progress bar' and it will stop about 
> 20% of the bar. It will stay there for 15 or 18 seconds and then it will 
> resume until it finally loads.
> 
> I then do:
> 
> service network stop
> 
> I do the same thing and it starts in about 3 seconds. oK, I know it's the 2nd 
> time I'm doing it (it's mainly cached) but if I do:
> 
> service network start
> 
> and I try it again, it will take 20-25 seconds.  I tried using ethereal but I 
> don't see any strange traffic. I'm trying to figure out what OO.o is trying 
> to do while starting that takes so much time (when network is enabled) but so 
> far nothing.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

A faint memory tells me that a line in /etc/hosts could help:

<hostname>     127.0.0.1

where hostname is from /etc/sysconfig/network.