So this is one nasty bug I have hit, I am using Fedora 7 , completely updated system.

*NO DNS Situation :-

Below clip will show how the GNOME-APPS take 30-50 secs to open/start when my ISP's network is down only for DNS, I can only ping to ISP gateway , but no working websites and dns. In this situation gnome-apps simply get stuck like anything making whole system unsuable for long time till I get my proper net back.







Proper DNS situation :-

Below clip of my system with proper internet connection where gnome-apps open in milliseconds.



Update #1:- Could not find anything relevant on google and IRC #Gnome @ freenode did not help too, so opened bug report directly with gnome ,lets see how this rolls now



http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470507


Update #2:- Solved!

Solution:- Fedora/gnome does not update hostname changes made by hostname command, I had to add it in /etc/hosts everything i change hostname. needs to be fixed IMHO.

4 comments

1. conna on October 19, 2007 at 6:33 AM

   hi, i have the same problem. but i don't understand your solution. exactly what did you change in your /etc/hosts file?

    
2. anshuman on October 19, 2007 at 4:48 PM

   see, if you change your hostname to "fedora7" then in /etc/hosts you will put following.
   
   =============================
   # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
   # that require network functionality will fail.
   ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
   127.0.0.1 Fedora7 localhost.localdomain localhost [anshu@Fedora7 ~]$
   
   =============================

    
3. conna on October 23, 2007 at 12:31 AM

   thanks a lot. it took me wireshark to figure out I misspielled my hostname :)

    
4. anshuman on October 23, 2007 at 12:37 AM

   heh. Okay :) . I want to pust Wireshark video too... I got soo little time.
   
   Anyway nice to see you resolve this.