Strace is attached. As you can see it's opening /proc/mounts and reading from there for some reason.
current /proc/mounts on the box is 9286 lines. time gnome-appearance-properties real 0m7.375s user 0m1.376s sys 0m3.588s ** Attachment added: "strace.out" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23157682/strace.out -- gnome-appearance-properties hangs and spins CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315132 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs