2008/3/24 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx>: > > New strace, now with the -r option disabled. I caught the dead state for > about 2s or so, hope it is enough. > > http://mso.fedorapeople.org/debug/gnome-terminal.log.gz (I replaced the > old one). 0.000047 connect(10, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/.ICE-unix/2371"}, 21) = 0 0.000066 fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 0.000069 write(10, "\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 0.000171 read(10, "\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 8.482029 access("/home/martin/.ICEauthority", R_OK) = 0 We can see here that that read() took over 8 seconds to complete. That read is it trying to talk via ORBit I think. Which will try to resolve "localhost", which if your /etc/hosts is busted will probably take that long to timeout. How to debug your /etc/hosts I'm not sure; maybe use the audit system to monitor the file. This page talks about that: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-audit-files-to-see-who-made-changes-to-a-file.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list