f12 sometimes is slow to start

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Because the display, even when on the same machine, is still handled as
>> server and client, using hostnames for the networking.  A change of
>> names or addresses, mid-use, can be a bit of a pain, too.

Natxo Asenjo:
> fair enough, but if that were the case here, I would have this problem
> everythime, and that is not the case.

I'd expect that, too.  However, do you sometimes find the computer
thinks it's localhost.localdomain, and other times has a real
domain/host name?

One possible cause for *sometimes* having problems like this, rather
than consistent problems, can be having two DHCP servers on a LAN (such
as a modem/router as well as something else), with one properly doling
out addresses, another improperly doing so, and occasional clashes
between them.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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