Freeze on startup at splash screen (ubuntu)

[Matt Kowske]

I am having intermittent problems with starting Gnucash v 2.6.3 on
Ubuntu 14.10.

It normally starts up quickly but sometimes will hang at the splash
screen during 'gnucash/app-utils' phase. When this happens I can kill
the process and try again but the same thing will happen. Seems the only
way to resolve is to log off and back in again. If there is some more
logging information I can provide that would be helpful just let me know
how to do so -- thank you..

$ gnucash --debug --logto stdout
* 11:55:01  INFO <gnc.gui> [main] System locale returned en_US.UTF-8
* 11:55:01  INFO <gnc.gui> [main] Effective locale set to en_US.UTF-8.
* 11:55:02  INFO <gnc.engine> [gnc_hook_lookup] no hook lists
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 512 bytes
from /dev/urandom
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 2024 bytes
from /etc/passwd
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 27 bytes
from /proc/loadavg
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 1226 bytes
from /proc/meminfo
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 1084 bytes
from /proc/net/dev
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 4096 bytes
from /proc/self/environ
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 346 bytes
from /proc/self/stat
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 2200 bytes
from /proc/stat
* 11:55:02  INFO <qof.engine> [init_from_file] guid_init got 21 bytes
from /proc/uptime