Package: gnome-desktop-environment Version: 1:2.22.2~5 Severity: important *** Please type your report below this line ***
I've been noticing this issue for several months now. However, I haven't submitted a bug 'cause I don't know exactly what is causing it so I don't know to which package submit it. But it is so annoying that I have decided to submit it against the hole desktop environment. This is what happens: Sometimes when I run a program it's window take too long to appear on screen, meanwhile the other processes and running programs keep working fine, with no freezes. I have noticed that this problem occurs whenever the DNS resolver fails. That is, when I try to run a program and it is taking too long to appear I go to a (previously opened) terminal emulator window and run something like "host www.debian.org" and the host utility is also freezed (trying to reach hosts or waiting for the name to be resolved). When the names get resolved inmediately or fail inmediately the new program's window shows inmediately but when the name takes to long to be resolved or fail then the new program's window is delayed. I have tried with metacity and compiz-fusion and this happends with both. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on: ii alacarte 0.11.5-1 easy GNOME menu editing tool ii cheese 2.22.3-3 A tool to take pictures and videos ii deskbar-applet 2.22.3.1-1 universal search and navigation ba ii desktop-base 5.0.1 common files for the Debian Deskto ii dmz-cursor-theme 0.4.1 Style neutral, scalable cursor the ii ekiga 2.0.12-1+nmu1 H.323 and SIP compatible VoIP clie ii epiphany-browser 2.22.3-8 Intuitive web browser - dummy pack ii epiphany-gecko [gnome-ww 2.22.3-8+b1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck ii evince 2.22.2-4~lenny1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer ii evolution 2.22.3.1-1 groupware suite with mail client a ii evolution-data-server 2.22.3-1.1 evolution database backend server ii fast-user-switch-applet 2.22.0-1 Applet for the GNOME panel providi ii file-roller 2.22.4-2 an archive manager for GNOME ii gcalctool 5.22.3-2 A GTK2 desktop calculator ii gconf-editor 2.22.0-1 An editor for the GConf configurat ii gdm 2.20.7-4 GNOME Display Manager ii gksu 2.0.0-6 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-about 2.22.3-2 The GNOME about box ii gnome-backgrounds 2.22.0-1 a set of backgrounds packaged with ii gnome-core 1:2.22.2~5 The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e ii gnome-keyring 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services (daemon and ii gnome-media 2.22.0-3 GNOME media utilities ii gnome-menus 2.22.2-4 an implementation of the freedeskt ii gnome-netstatus-applet 2.12.1-2 Network status applet for GNOME 2 ii gnome-nettool 2.22.0-1 network information tool for GNOME ii gnome-network-admin 2.22.0-3 GNOME Network Administration Tool ii gnome-power-manager 2.22.1-4 power management tool for the GNOM ii gnome-screensaver 2.22.2-2 GNOME screen saver and locker ii gnome-system-monitor 2.22.3-1 Process viewer and system resource ii gnome-system-tools 2.22.0-3 Cross-platform configuration utili ii gnome-themes 2.22.2-1 official themes for the GNOME 2 de ii gnome-user-guide 2.22.1-1 GNOME user's guide ii gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-3 GNOME desktop utilities ii gnome-volume-manager 2.22.1-1 GNOME daemon to auto-mount and man ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ba 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugins from the "base" ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-go 0.10.8-4 GStreamer plugins from the "good" ii gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.19-3 Tools for use with GStreamer ii gtk2-engines 1:2.14.3-2 theme engines for GTK+ 2.x ii gucharmap 1:2.22.3-2 Unicode character picker and font ii iceweasel-gnome-support 3.0.4-1 Support for GNOME in Iceweasel ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-1+b1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar ii libgnomevfs2-bin 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (support ii libgnomevfs2-extra 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (extra m ii nautilus-cd-burner 2.20.0-1 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus ii seahorse 2.22.3-2 GNOME front end for GnuPG ii sound-juicer 2.22.0-2 GNOME 2 CD Ripper ii swfdec-gnome 2.22.2-2 Tools to play SWF files (Macromedi ii totem-gstreamer 2.22.2-5 A simple media player for the GNOM ii totem-plugins 2.22.2-5 Plugins for the Totem media player ii vinagre 0.5.1-2 VNC client for the GNOME Desktop ii vino 2.22.2-1 VNC server for GNOME ii zenity 2.22.1-2 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment recommends: pn fam <none> (no description available) ii gnome-accessibility 1:2.22.2~5 The GNOME desktop environment -- a ii gnome-games 1:2.22.3-3 games for the GNOME desktop Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment suggests: ii evolution-exchange 2.22.3.dfsg-1 Exchange plugin for the Evolution ii gnome-audio 2.0.0-2 Audio files for Gnome pn gnome-dbg <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Jaime Alberto Silva Ingeniero Electricista Gerente SG Automatización Ltda. Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
