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[kover] Takes ages to start up

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: [kover] Takes ages to start up
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:53:48 +0200

Package: kover
Version: 1:4-6+b1
Severity: normal

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As in the message subject, kover takes more than one minute to show up. 
At first it seems to not work at all, then when all the hope it's lost, 
it pops its window. For an application that is just less than 1MB of 
executable, it looks really too much.
Purged the package, reinstalled, purged the home configuration: always 
the same.
I have tried to see if gdb can provide more information but nothing, 
indeed the program doesn't crash or have a segfault, it's just slow to 
start.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.31.1

Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  990 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  990 unstable        mi.mirror.garr.it 
  990 unstable        ftp.it.debian.org 
  500 testing         mi.mirror.garr.it 
    1 experimental    mi.mirror.garr.it 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                (Version) | Installed
================================-+-=============
kdebase-runtime     (>= 4:4.2.2) | 4:4.3.1-1
kdelibs5            (>= 4:4.2.4) | 4:4.3.1-1
libc6                 (>= 2.2.5) | 2.9-26
libcddb2                         | 1.2.1-1
libcdio10                        | 0.81-4
libgcc1             (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.4.1-4
libqt4-dbus         (>= 4:4.5.2) | 4:4.5.2-2
libqt4-network      (>= 4:4.5.2) | 4:4.5.2-2
libqt4-svg          (>= 4:4.5.2) | 4:4.5.2-2
libqt4-xml          (>= 4:4.5.2) | 4:4.5.2-2
libqtcore4          (>= 4:4.5.2) | 4:4.5.2-2
libqtgui4           (>= 4:4.5.2) | 4:4.5.2-2
libstdc++6            (>= 4.2.1) | 4.4.1-4


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Message #10 received at 549209@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
To: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>, 549209@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#549209: [kover] Takes ages to start up
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:19:21 +0200

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:53:48PM +0200, Valerio Passini wrote:
> As in the message subject, kover takes more than one minute to show up. 

And as the name of the program says it's a KDE app. KDE4 to be precise.
I bet it just takes ages to load the KDE libs (and whatever they do on
initialization)

> I have tried to see if gdb can provide more information but nothing, 
> indeed the program doesn't crash or have a segfault, it's just slow to 
> start.

And other KDE4 apps? Do you run it under KDE4 where the stuff is
already there or under something else?

Honestly I don't believe this is a kover problem.

Grüße/Regards,

Rene
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Message #15 received at 549209@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
To: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
Cc: 549209@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#549209: [kover] Takes ages to start up
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 22:36:14 +0200

Alle Thursday 01 October 2009, hai scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 04:53:48PM +0200, Valerio Passini wrote:
> > As in the message subject, kover takes more than one minute to show
> > up.
> 
> And as the name of the program says it's a KDE app. KDE4 to be
>  precise. I bet it just takes ages to load the KDE libs (and whatever
>  they do on initialization)
> 
> > I have tried to see if gdb can provide more information but
> > nothing, indeed the program doesn't crash or have a segfault, it's
> > just slow to start.
> 
> And other KDE4 apps? Do you run it under KDE4 where the stuff is
> already there or under something else?
> 
> Honestly I don't believe this is a kover problem.
> 
> Grüße/Regards,
> 
> Rene

Hi Rene,

My desktop environment is usually KDE and now is KDE 4.3.1, AFAIK any 
other KDE application is doing fine its job: no (long) latency between 
launching it and seeing it appear on the screen. Really, I was surprised 
by that just because it was the first time I have seen it behaving in 
that way.
I understand that this can be a misconfiguration. I have tried with a 
fresh user and it behaves weird. Inside LXDE, kover is slow to start up, 
in a KDE it's just normal. If none else is able to reproduce this "bug", 
it should be considered just my problem.
Sorry in this case for the report.
Bye

Valerio

Message #20 received at 549209@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
To: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
Cc: 549209@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#549209: [kover] Takes ages to start up
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 00:34:48 +0200

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:36:14PM +0200, Valerio Passini wrote:
> I understand that this can be a misconfiguration. I have tried with a 
> fresh user and it behaves weird. Inside LXDE, kover is slow to start up, 
> in a KDE it's just normal. If none else is able to reproduce this "bug", 
> it should be considered just my problem.

Tried here in my normal GNOME env. Just took "a few seconds", something like
10 to 15?

Grüße/Regards,

Rene
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Message #25 received at 549209@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Valerio Passini <valerio.passini@unicam.it>
To: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
Cc: 549209@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#549209: [kover] Takes ages to start up
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:46:53 +0200

Alle Friday 02 October 2009, Rene Engelhard ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Tried here in my normal GNOME env. Just took "a few seconds",
>  something like 10 to 15?
> 
> Grüße/Regards,
> 
> Rene
> 

I have had an idea and found that if my WiFi connection is up, 
kover is slow to start. If the connection is down, on the opposite it is 
fast. So it does not matter the user with whom I login, as previously 
reported: kover worked on my fresh user just because I didn't set up the 
wifi connection on that account. Do you have any clue about what kover 
tries to do with internet connection during its start?
Cheers

Valerio

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