Comment 138 for bug 128803

You mean the one that tells your system's hostname?

On Jan 14, 2008 6:31 AM, Romano Giannetti <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a very similar problem. After a bit of digging I found an entry
> for 127.0.1.1 (notice: .1.1, not .0.1) in my /etc/hosts. I commented it
> and now the gnome starts fast like in Feisty.
>
> But: why that entry is needed? localhost is on 127.0.0.1, no? Since
> 1986, no :-)?
>
> --
> [Gutsy] very slow gnome startup
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128803
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