On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com> wrote:

Is there any kind of a error being logged in /var/log/messages?

Wild guess; nfs client service is trying to look up the hostname (possibly repeatedly), but it's broken.  I think in F11 something regressed in anaconda/NetworkManager which no longer caused custom hostnames to be written to /etc/hosts.