Doesn't look like network related (as could be guessed from /etc/hosts not changing start up time). Gcalctool seems to be doing something weird with the fonts, first 27000 lines of the strace log are mostly stuff like
So it opens a font file, mmaps it, then closes and munmaps, presumably doing something with the font data in between. And it does that a lot. Grepping for "stat.*usr.*fonts" gives 2823 hits, and the font stuff takes most of the time in strace log. I straced galctool myself and the same grep gave only 39 hits and starts in under one second. I have no idea why it's doing that with the fonts in your case, maybe someone with more knowledge of gnome font handling has some idea... It's a separate bug to this /etc/hosts case anyway.
JuliusBloch,
Doesn't look like network related (as could be guessed from /etc/hosts not changing start up time). Gcalctool seems to be doing something weird with the fonts, first 27000 lines of the strace log are mostly stuff like
stat64( "/usr/share/ fonts/truetype/ ttf-arabeyes/ ae_AlYermook. ttf", {st_mode= S_IFREG| 0644, st_size=121972, ...}) = 0 usr/share/ fonts/truetype/ ttf-arabeyes/ ae_AlYermook. ttf", O_RDONLY) = 15 S_IFREG| 0644, st_size=121972, ...}) = 0
open("/
fcntl64(15, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(15, {st_mode=
mmap2(NULL, 121972, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 15, 0) = 0xb600f000
close(15) = 0
munmap(0xb600f000, 121972) = 0
So it opens a font file, mmaps it, then closes and munmaps, presumably doing something with the font data in between. And it does that a lot. Grepping for "stat.*usr.*fonts" gives 2823 hits, and the font stuff takes most of the time in strace log. I straced galctool myself and the same grep gave only 39 hits and starts in under one second. I have no idea why it's doing that with the fonts in your case, maybe someone with more knowledge of gnome font handling has some idea... It's a separate bug to this /etc/hosts case anyway.