Conclusion: gnome is weird!
Mar. 24th, 2009 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyWell, it seems I've fixed the problem. (The slowness problem, not the internet problem.) I tried looking up cases of people having similar problems, and found the oddest suggestion: For these people, the problem happened only when the computer was not connected to the internet, and went away entirely if their computer's name was in the 127.0.0.1 entry in the hosts file.
Now how the hell that could be relevant, I don't know. But I put my computer's name in the hosts file, and suddenly it worked! Presumably it only started occurring yesterday because that was the first time since I changed its name that I couldn't connect to the internet. (Which doesn't explain why it would occur in the first place.) See, when I got the computer, it was named "dell-desktop". Even though it was a laptop. Still, I didn't get around to renaming it until pretty recently, and certainly didn't think of the hosts file when I did so.
Well, I'll want to check it again in a few more hours to make sure it's really not just being erratic, but...
-Harry
[0]Wow, was that just yesterday? I've been sleeping a lot lately, I've been kind of sick...
Now how the hell that could be relevant, I don't know. But I put my computer's name in the hosts file, and suddenly it worked! Presumably it only started occurring yesterday because that was the first time since I changed its name that I couldn't connect to the internet. (Which doesn't explain why it would occur in the first place.) See, when I got the computer, it was named "dell-desktop". Even though it was a laptop. Still, I didn't get around to renaming it until pretty recently, and certainly didn't think of the hosts file when I did so.
Well, I'll want to check it again in a few more hours to make sure it's really not just being erratic, but...
-Harry
[0]Wow, was that just yesterday? I've been sleeping a lot lately, I've been kind of sick...
