Running in strace -e trace=file the last lines are:
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3661, ...}) = 0 stat64("null/jss", 0xbfced5b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/tmp/.com.sun.deploy.net.socket.32283.7745889521205398601.AF_UNIX", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 40 stat64("/tmp/.com.sun.deploy.net.socket.32283.7745889521205398601.AF_UNIX", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 unlink("/tmp/.com.sun.deploy.net.socket.32283.7745889521205398601.AF_UNIX") = 0 stat64("/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.16/jre/bin/java", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47308, ...}) = 0
Which points to java as the culprit.
Running in strace -e trace=file the last lines are:
stat64( "/etc/localtime ", {st_mode= S_IFREG| 0644, st_size=3661, ...}) = 0 tmp/.com. sun.deploy. net.socket. 32283.774588952 1205398601. AF_UNIX" , O_RDWR| O_CREAT| O_EXCL| O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 40 "/tmp/. com.sun. deploy. net.socket. 32283.774588952 1205398601. AF_UNIX" , {st_mode= S_IFREG| 0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 "/tmp/. com.sun. deploy. net.socket. 32283.774588952 1205398601. AF_UNIX" ) = 0 "/usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun-1. 6.0.16/ jre/bin/ java", {st_mode= S_IFREG| 0755, st_size=47308, ...}) = 0
stat64("null/jss", 0xbfced5b0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/
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unlink(
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Which points to java as the culprit.