Strange delay when starting apps

Hello,

Yesterday I have noticed that every application I start is taking about 3-5
seconds to start, and this is annoying me.. I have tried to investigate
this issue and here is what I found: when some application starts up (gedit
or something else, it does not matter how heavy an application is), it is
freezing at some moment for a while and only after that it is continuing to
load. I have used strace to check it out, you can see it's output with my
comment below:
$ strace gedit
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access("/home/zevil/.ICEauthority", R_OK) = 0
open("/home/zevil/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 11
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1279, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x4125d000
read(11, "\0\4XSMP\0\0\0\37local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-"..., 4096) = 1279
close(11) = 0
munmap(0x4125d000, 4096) = 0
write(10, "\0\4\1\1\3\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2662\307\7\26\3 24306"..., 32)
= 32
read(10, "\0\6\0@\2\0\0\0", 8) = 8
read(10, "\3\0MIT052\3\0001.0f00", 16) = 16
fcntl64(10, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC)
fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(10, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
access("/home/zevil/.ICEauthority", R_OK) = 0
open("/home/zevil/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 11
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1279, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x4125d000
read(11, "\0\4XSMP\0\0\0\37local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-"..., 4096) = 1279
read(11, "", 4096) = 0
close(11) = 0
munmap(0x4125d000, 4096) = 0
write(10, "\0\7\1\0\7\0\0\0\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\0XSMP306\3\0 MITWw"..., 64) =
64
read(10, "\0\3\0@\1\0\0\0", 8) = 8
read(10, "\0\0MIT052", 8) = 8
access("/home/zevil/.ICEauthority", R_OK) = 0
open("/home/zevil/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 11
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1279, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x4125d000
read(11, "\0\4XSMP\0\0\0\37local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-"..., 4096) = 1279
close(11) = 0
munmap(0x4125d000, 4096) = 0
write(10, "\0\4\1\0\3\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2662\307\7\26\3 24306"..., 32)
= 32
read(10, "\0\10\0\1\3\0\0\0", 8) = 8
read(10, "\7\0GnomeSM\0001.\6\0002.12.01232", 24) = 24
write(10, "\1\1\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 16
read(10,

// AND HERE IT FREEZES FOR A WHILE

"\1\2\0\1\6\0\0\0", 8) = 8
read(10, "%\0\0\0001052e8cdff000113123293400000"..., 48) = 48
write(10, "\1\f\1\0\t\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0CurrentD irec"..., 80) =
80
write(10, "\1\f\1\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\t\0\0\0ProcessI Drec"..., 72) =
72
write(10, "\1\f\1\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\7\0\0\0ProgramI Drec"..., 72) =
72
write(10, "\1\f\1\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\0\0CloneCom mand"..., 72) =
72
write(10, "\1\f\1\0\25\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\16\0\0\0Restart Comma"..., 176)
= 176
write(10, "\1\f\1\0\10\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\6\0\0\0UserIDtC omma"..., 72) =
72
write(3, "\20\0\5\0\f\0 \5SM_CLIENT_ID", 20) = 20
read(3, "\1\213N\0\0\0\0\0\26\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\24\0\0\0\24\0\ 0\0\0"..., 32) =
32
access("/opt/gnome/share/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/local/share/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/local/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/opt/gnome/share/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/opt/gnome/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/share/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/gtkrc-2.0", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/opt/gnome/share/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/local/share/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/local/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/opt/gnome/share/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/opt/gnome/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/share/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access("/usr/geditrc", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {0x4016e960, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {0x4016e960, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTRAP, {0x4016e960, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGFPE, {0x4016e960, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {0x4016e960, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
stat64("/home/zevil/.gnome2/accels/gedit", 0xbfb12cdc) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/tmp", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 11
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=1368, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(11, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getdents(11, /* 42 entries */, 4096) = 1088
stat64("/tmp/gconfd-zevil", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=72, ...}) = 0
getuid32() = 1000
getdents(11, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0
close(11) = 0
---cut---

and any other application's strace looks like this - it freezes on a same
thing. So could you guys advise what I can do with it to fix this?

best regards,
Vitaly

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