Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

[Oliver Iberien]

After an upgrade from .11 to .12 on FreeBSD 6.0, gnucash loads painfully 
slowly. So slowly that I've been sitting here watching a terminal with 
"gnucash --debug" (which is how I hope how it is phrased) do absolutely 
nothing for the past few minutes. Eventually the loading panel comes up and 
the modules load very slowly. It seems to take longer each time gnucash is 
run. 

Would anyone have any idea what is doing this? I'll post some output if 
gnucash wakes up and produces some. Oh, here's some:

$ gnucash --debug
[then a few minutes later...]
gnucash: [D] "files to open: "()
gnucash: [D] "starting up (2)."
[then another wait of a few minutes...]
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-file looking for ""finance-quote-check"" in 
"("/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnucash")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnucash/finance-quote-check"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnucash/finance-quote-check"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-file looking for ""finance-quote-helper"" in 
"("/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnucash")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for 
""/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnucash/finance-quote-helper"
gnucash: [D] "found file 
""/usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gnucash/finance-quote-helper"
gnucash: [D] "loading system configuration"
gnucash: [D] "gnc:find-file looking for ""config"" in 
"("/usr/X11R6/etc/gnucash")
gnucash: [D] "  checking for ""/usr/X11R6/etc/gnucash/config"
gnucash: [D] "found file ""/usr/X11R6/etc/gnucash/config"
gnucash: [D] "loading user configuration"
gnucash: [D] "trying to load ""/home/oliver/.gnucash/config-1.8.user"
gnucash: [D] "trying to load ""/home/oliver/.gnucash/config-1.6.user"
gnucash: [D] "trying to load ""/home/oliver/.gnucash/config.user"
gnucash: [D] "trying to load ""/home/oliver/.gnucash/config-1.8.auto"
gnucash: [D] "loading saved reports"
gnucash: [D] "trying to load ""/home/oliver/.gnucash/saved-reports-1.8"
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "report-hook
  #<procedure business-report-function ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "startup-hook
  #<procedure #f ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "ui-startup-hook
  #<procedure gnc:extensions-menu-setup ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "add-extension-hook
  #<procedure add-business-test ()>
  #<procedure add-ofx-menu-item ()>
  #<procedure add-log-replay-menu-item ()>
  #<procedure add-business-items ()>
  #<procedure gnc:main-window-ui-startup-handler ()>
  #<procedure gnc:tip-of-the-day-startup-func ()>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "book-closed-hook
  #<procedure gnc:main-window-book-close-handler (session)>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "book-opened-hook
  #<procedure import-commodities (session)>
  #<procedure gnc:main-window-book-open-handler (session)>
(0.0037s) [list] -*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 --> 64
(0.0027s) [load] -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 --> 0x94a8b20
(0.0043s) [load] -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 --> 
0x94a8e40
(0.0088s) [load] -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1 --> 0x94bd080
  #<procedure #f (session)>
gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "ui-post-startup-hook
  #<procedure business-ui-started ()>


Oliver