Comment 7 for bug 69941

I can confirm the same problem on feisty beta. Aside from very slow login, two panel applets, namely CPUFreqApplet and WeatherApplet, would fail to start, when there is no wired network connection.

The tip in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/69941/comments/6 works for me. Well, I removed the hostname from the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts myself shortly after upgrading to feisty, considering that the hostname is resolvable on DNS. :-/

Without the hostname in /etc/hosts, Gnome is much slower, even if there is network connection. For example, new gnome-terminal tabs shows up with a second's delay after Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed. I had "host name lookup failure on localhost" in .xsession-errors as well.

After putting back the hostname to /etc/hosts, everything returns to normal.