I'm having this same problem (oddly starting within the past week) with more of less the same configuration as described above.
Attached is a strace of the command--looks to be hanging in the usual NFS way by trying to stat non-existant directories at a mount point. ** Attachment added: "error.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14285042/error.txt -- Gnome Appearance Properties doesn't work when /home folder mounted using NFS; affects the log out dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224820 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs