Comment 2 for bug 161791

I have the some problem after upgrade from 7.4 to 7.10. System application are very sluggish to start in general, but gparted takes about 5 minutes to start.

:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f404a

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4866 39086113+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4867 4988 979965 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4989 18042 104856255 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 18043 60801 343461667+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 60280 60801 4192965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 18043 60279 339268639+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order