Comment 1 for bug 300151

I think that I have a track. Based on similar "su" problems, I decided to explore the possibility that it is the fault of "dbus". Based on results below, I believe it to be the case and I reassign this issue to "dbus". Restarting dbus fixes this issue.

So I did:

1) time how long ssh to localhost takes:

==>time ssh localhost date
Thu Nov 20 22:55:54 CST 2008

real 0m0.248s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s

2) Restarted dbus as root:

root:~ ###/etc/init.d/dbus restart
 * Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends
   ...done.
 * Stopping bluetooth
   ...done.
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald
   ...done.
 * Stopping system message bus dbus
   ...done.
 * Starting system message bus dbus
   ...done.
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
   ...done.
 * Starting bluetooth
   ...done.
 * Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends
   ...done.

(this killed gnome-panel and stuff also, no biggy)

3) tried ssh again:
==>time ssh localhost date
Thu Nov 20 22:56:06 CST 2008

real 0m0.268s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.008s

So restarting dbus fixed this issue.