root can start "mahjongg" in 4 seconds, normal user in 39 seconds!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Miles Lane wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Today I have noticed that when I launch apps, I first see a "Starting
><progname>..." entry appear in the Window List applet.  Then, the
>"Starting..." disappears and about thirty seconds later the program
>window gets rendered.  I tested starting mahjongg as root from a
>command shell.  This brought up the program in 4 seconds.  I exited
>from the root login shell and tried launching mahjongg as a normal
>user from the command shell.  It took over forty seconds for the
>program window to appear.
>
>I thought maybe this was a font cache issue and tried running
>fc-cache.  This did not help.  I saw that recently updated fontconfig
>packages were made available for OpenSUSE for a similar problem.  Is
>this a known problem with the current set of yum packages for FC5T2?
>
>Any ideas?
>
Are you running FC5test2 or do you have all the updates and thereby 
running Fedora development branch aka rawhide?

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Rahul 

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