Re: Terminal won't start???

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>]

2008/12/31 Sven Arvidsson <sa whiz se>:
> On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 15:21 -0500, Jacob Tennant wrote:
>> Was trying to open TERMINAL from the applications menu and it shows that it
>> is trying to start in the applications bar at the bottom of the screen but
>> the window never appears?
>
> Hi,
>
> Does this happen with most GTK+ appliactions, or only gnome-terminal?
>
> If it happens with most, it might be a misconfigured loopback interface
> and hostname lookup taking ages before it times out.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/94048

Which is silly considering most desktop users don't care about running
GTK+ applications over the network.

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Felipe Contreras