general weirdness (strange delay)

[curmudgeon]

Running kde (4).

If I select okular from the menu, the window comes up immediately.

If I type "okular" in konsole, the window comes up immediately.

In both of the above cases, I can select open, and then choose any file, and it will open immediately.

However, if I type (from konsole) "okular any_file.pdf", it literally takes more than two minutes for the window to come up (this has not NORMALLY been the case - it is something to do with the condition of my machine right now, and I have no idea what). Any ideas what is going on? Thanks in advance.

[acmondor]

Whenever I encounter a problem like this I use strace to get more clues as to what might be going on.