I did have a similar problem, turn out to me a fontproblem, fc-cache did'nt update the fontcache because of a timestamp issue, try to touch the font dirs, and run fc-cache again.
sudo fc-cache -fv 2>&1 | grep failed | cut -f1 -d":" | xargs -i sudo touch {} && sudo fc-cache -fv -- [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94048 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-desktop in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs