git-gui hangs on read

I just upgraded a few machines (RHEL 4.4) to the latest stable, and git-gui stopped working. It just hangs forever if it's in a git repository. If it's not in a repository, it will open up the dialog that lets you create or open a repository. I'm not sure what's going on, but here's the tail end of the strace -f:

[pid 16903] open("/usr/share/aspell/standard.kbd", O_RDONLY) = 3 [pid 16903] fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=100, ...}) = 0 [pid 16903] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a983ce000 [pid 16903] read(3, "# Standard keyboard data file\n\nq"..., 4096) = 100 [pid 16903] read(3, "", 4096) = 0 [pid 16903] close(3) = 0 [pid 16903] munmap(0x2a983ce000, 4096) = 0 [pid 16903] fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 [pid 16903] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a983ce000 [pid 16903] write(1, "@(#) International Ispell Versio"..., 68 <unfinished ...> [pid 16897] <... read resumed> "@(#) International Ispell Versio"..., 4096) = 68 [pid 16903] <... write resumed> ) = 68 [pid 16903] fstat(0, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 [pid 16903] mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2a983cf000 [pid 16903] read(0, <unfinished ...> [pid 16897] write(5, "!\n$$cr master\n", 14) = 14 [pid 16903] <... read resumed> "!\n$$cr master\n", 4096) = 14 [pid 16897] read(6, <unfinished ...> [pid 16903] read(0,

Has anyone seen this before? I wanted to get some other eyeballs on this before I dive into this rabbit hole.