Delay on all salt commands when importing keyring

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On Ubuntu 14.04, salt commands can incur a 25s delay when run via sudo. This appears to be due to a problem with the import of the Python keyring module.

mp@silver ~ % salt --versions-report
           Salt: 2014.7.0rc1-379-g350b6f8
         Python: 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56)
         Jinja2: 2.7.3
       M2Crypto: 0.21.1
 msgpack-python: 0.3.0
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
        libnacl: 1.3.0
         PyYAML: 3.10
          ioflo: 0.9.39
          PyZMQ: 14.0.1
           RAET: 0.2.12
            ZMQ: 4.0.4
           Mako: Not Installed

mp@silver ~ % sudo dpkg --status python-keyring                                                   2 
Package: python-keyring
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 274
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.5-1
Depends: python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2)
Recommends: python-secretstorage, python-crypto
Suggests: python-gi, gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0, python-gdata, python-keyczar, python-kde4
Breaks: kupfer (<< 0+v208-2.1), python-mini-buildd (<< 1.0.0~gamma.3)
Description: store and access your passwords safely
 The Python keyring library provides an easy way to access the system
 keyring service (e.g Gnome-Keyring, KWallet) from Python.
 it can be used in any application that needs safe password storage.
Original-Maintainer: Carl Chenet <chaica@debian.org>
Homepage: https://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib

mp@silver ~ % sudo time python -c 'import keyring'
0.11user 0.02system 0:25.17elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 20532maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+10616minor)pagefaults 0swaps

mp@silver ~ % sudo time salt-call --local sys.doc    
2.20user 1.38system 0:16.57elapsed 21%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 81812maxresident)k
272inputs+40outputs (0major+1516329minor)pagefaults 0swaps

I believe this may be an upstream issue as documented here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-keyring/+bug/1181344

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