[Trac #1242] Web fails to launch in build 368 if DNS servers cannot be reached

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#1242: Web fails to launch in build 368 if DNS servers cannot be reached
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 Reporter:  dcbw         |       Owner:  marco  
     Type:  defect       |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  blocker      |   Milestone:  Trial-1
Component:  web browser  |    Keywords:         
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 Because of Mozilla's profile directory locking, which depends on
 gethostbyname(), Web gets a SIGKILL from somewhere after about 15 seconds
 of not being able to resolve the local hostname.

 NetworkManager in build #368 is unique-ifying the hostname, but was not
 updating /etc/hosts to create the static host mapping back to 127.0.0.1.

 I've modified NetworkManager to correctly update /etc/hosts when it
 changes the hostname, which is what should happen, but we should also fix
 Web to handle this gracefully and not die.  We don't need Mozilla profile
 locking on NFS at this time, which is why Mozilla does this.

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