Comment 4 for bug 143990

I can confirm this bug, which I indeed consider quite annoying. This same problem occurred to me with all the ubuntu releases I have tried (all of them since breezy, on four different machines; also gutsy has the same issue).

IF the network is set to "Static IP" AND IF there is no network connection, THEN the systems hangs for long times before executing many tasks. It takes forever (like 30 seconds) just to open xterm in GNOME or fluxbox. BTW, it seems that once the terminal window is open, executing processes in the terminal is not slower than usual (provided you do not start any other X window).

This behavior is easily reproducible, since it happens each time I bring home my laptop (in my office I use static IP, and the first time I boot from home it takes ages).

A friend of mine says this was a well known bug on some older slackware release, but this claim is of course unconfirmed.

Really hope this gets fixed somehow.