Geeqie does nothing for 25 seconds.

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When I start geeqie (after upgrading from 16.04 to 20.04) it does nothing for 25 seconds before starting as normal.

I've run stracen and see that it opens a socket to: /run/user/1000/bus, sends a couple of messages but then apparently expects another reply but times out after 25 seconds.

1599213714.299338 connect(8, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/run/user/1000/bus"}, 110) = 0 <0.000016>
1599213714.299935 sendto(8, "AUTH\r\n", 6, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 6 <0.000007>
1599213714.300008 recvfrom(8, "REJECTED EXTERNAL\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 19 <0.000005>
1599213714.300038 sendto(8, "AUTH EXTERNAL 31303030\r\n", 24, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 24 <0.000006>
1599213714.300060 recvfrom(8, "OK 63a9xxxx"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 37 <0.000005>
1599213714.300081 sendto(8, "NEGOTIATE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 19, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 19 <0.000005>
1599213714.300102 recvfrom(8, "AGREE_UNIX_FD\r\n", 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 15 <0.000005>
1599213714.300122 sendto(8, "BEGIN\r\n", 7, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 7 <0.000005>
1599213714.303699 read(8, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8 <0.000004>
1599213714.303716 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 0 (Timeout) <25.020145>

I use a text-based mail reader. When there are images included in the Email I do "view-attachment" and geeqie gets started. Current Email has 5 images to view, so for each I have to launch geeqie and it takes 25 seconds.

The server has been upgraded in hardware and software so I expected things to become faster, but this is a whole level of regression.... :-(

1) 20.04
2) Geeqie 1.5.1