Ubuntu GNOME 17.04: weird delay starting apps

[Alex G.S.]

Update:

Looks like I found the root cause of the problem. I added a large number of
fonts which were a number of *.otf and *.ttf to ~/.fonts and then rebuilt
my font cache. This operation was very CPU intensive. After that all apps
were loading with large delays. When I deleted ~/.fonts and rebuilt the
cache again the apps returned to normal instant startup times.

There might be a performance issue with the loading of a large number of
user fonts I'll file a bug upstream, thanks!

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Alex G.S. <alxgrtnstrngl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I just installed the new 17.04 beta of Ubuntu GNOME 3.24 and it's
> fantastic, thanks! But I've identified an odd issue when starting apps.
> There seems to be a long delay of almost a second or more starting apps.
> I've tried disabling all extensions and the problem still occurs.
>
> When I click on gnome-terminal for example it takes 2 seconds to startup:
>
> [$] time gnome-terminal
>
> real 0m1.896s
> user 0m0.092s
> sys 0m0.004s
>
> Checking the journal I see:
> [$]
>
> dbus-daemon[1430]: Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
> systemd[1417]: Started GNOME Terminal Server.
>
> It seems like the dbus-daemon is misconfigured as having 2s startup times
> seems a bit unusual. Is this a known issue? How can I troubleshoot further?
>
> My hardware is really recent too:
>
>    - Intel® Core™ i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz × 8
>    - Intel® HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2)
>    - SSD storage all the way
>
> Thanks!
>
> Alex G.S.
>