Some gnome apps freezing when network active

[Greg Recine]

Hello all,

Has anyone else had this problem? Most noticeably, nautilus, the
gnome-panel (but not all the applets on the panel), and some misc gnome
programs (gnome-keybinding-properties, gnome-keyring-daemon,
gnome-theme-manager so far) will either never start or pause for
minutes. For example, when I try to open a nautilus folder, the whole
thing acts like it's frozen (icons on desktop disappear, etc) then,
after about 5 min, the folder will open and nautilus has restarted. This
happens every time. More randomly, the application menu and panel
properties will freeze for minutes at a time.

It turns out this only happens when the network is active. I did some
experimenting and found the following: If I delete the default route
(route del default eth0) all nautilus opens folders quick and nice. I
add the default route back and nautilus freezes then after many minutes
opens up the folder. The next action (close folder, say) and another
freeze.

As for other details, I had FC2 (clean install, but kept /home) and it
freezes. I did a update via yum (fedora and livna repositories only) and
still, the problem is there. It's there no matter which kernel I use
(2.4 and 2.6 flavors). SELinux disabled or enabled. Running on a HP
laptop and chose the install "everything" option.

I've looked through this mailing list and bugzilla (gnome & RH), but
found nothing like this. I'd like to know if this is known before I file
a bug report.

Thanks!

	- greg