commenting out localhost in your /etc/hosts file will cause issues with a lot of things.
I would try this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
88.80.197.138 yourmachine-name
It's most likely trying to connect to local services at startup and if its using localhost to do that, it'll fail in the resolution if you have that commented out.
Andrew
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