Slow slow slow.

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:11, Gabriel Jägenstedt wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> I decided to run a strace on the process to see where it halted.
> Both grip and eog halted at this line.
>
> setsockopt(14, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
> connect(14, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(16001),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16
>
> I'm hoping there is someone who knows something about this.
> Maybe it would be better to go to gnome and ask?
>
> This implies to me that this is some kind of error with the
> network. I have set it up with DHCP so I don't have much control of
> it. Webbased applications work without problem.
>
> This is my /etc/hosts
>
> ### etherconf DEBCONF AREA. DO NOT EDIT THIS AREA OR INSERT TEXT
> BEFORE IT.
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
>
> ::1             ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
>
> fe00::0         ip6-localnet
> ff00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2         ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3         ip6-allhosts
>
> 127.0.0.1       insula
>
> ### END OF DEBCONF AREA.  PLACE YOUR EDITS BELOW; THEY WILL BE
> PRESERVED.
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost insula

You have three definitions for localhost, that causes weird problems 
sometimes. Delete the second and third ones. If that doesn't work, 
what's the output of:

ifconfig
route

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Alan McKinnon
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