Re: Network problems in gnome-session

["Ray Strode" <halfline gmail com>]

Hi,

> The bug is basically as follows: after switching network connections via
> NetworkManager (maybe in combination with hibernate/resume, I'm not sure
> about that yet), suddenly every window takes about 10 seconds to open
> while waiting for gnome-session to respond.
>
> I've done various ltraces and straces of gnome-session and some
> applications.
>
> The applications themselves hang in, e.g. XtOpenApplication (in case of
> Xterm) or gnome_program_init (in case of gedit, for example).
>
> At the same time, gnome-session hangs in SmsGenerateClientID. strace
> shows that it seems to be waiting for a DNS reply from a long-gone DNS
> server for the local hostname..
What is the output of
echo $SESSION_MANAGER
?

Does it contain a hostname in it? The wrong hostname?  Does unset
SESSION_MANAGER make things magically startup faster?

--Ray