root can start "mahjongg" in 4 seconds, normal user in 39 seconds!

[Miles Lane]

Hello,

Today I have noticed that when I launch apps, I first see a "Starting
<progname>..." entry appear in the Window List applet.  Then, the
"Starting..." disappears and about thirty seconds later the program
window gets rendered.  I tested starting mahjongg as root from a
command shell.  This brought up the program in 4 seconds.  I exited
from the root login shell and tried launching mahjongg as a normal
user from the command shell.  It took over forty seconds for the
program window to appear.

I thought maybe this was a font cache issue and tried running
fc-cache.  This did not help.  I saw that recently updated fontconfig
packages were made available for OpenSUSE for a similar problem.  Is
this a known problem with the current set of yum packages for FC5T2?

Any ideas?
          Miles