[hoary] openoffice (really) slow

[toyfactory]

Avinash Sridhar wrote:
> Hi,
> I used to have a similar problem where OO would start and stall for a
> few minutes after splash screen. I ran a program called "strace" on OO
> from the command line and I found out that my localhost address was
> not set and hence OO was screwing up. Once i set up the localhost
> address
> 
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> 
> everything worked fine again.

Thanks!  After working fine for several weeks OO started playing up
again.  I checked and found no lo interface was configured.  (It was
causing problems with CUPS too).  Now, where should I add the command so
it's configured on bootup?

Cheers,

Nick