amarok on ubuntu hardy takes 15 minutes to startup

Dvorzhetsky dvorzhetsky at airpost.net
Sun Aug 24 18:25:06 UTC 2008


Hi, I'am running ubuntu hardy (gnome), I installed amarok from the 
regular repositories.

I got a serious problem with it: it takes about 15 minutes to startup, 
about 2 minutes for the icon to get in the status bar and then it is 
still unusable for about 10-15 minutes (mouse over the icon show the 
application is busy). Then it works fine.

I tried to remove the packages clearing config file but it didn't help. 
I even tried running it as root I built the collection then I have the 
same problem.
The worse is that neither memory nor cpu is 100% used when it loads, I 
can still use my system, as long as I don't click on the amarok icon and 
ask him something (in that case I have to wait that it loads fully to 
regain control on the system).
I check it do not reload collection in the mean time, HD are not busy.

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me at bunlaptop:~$ amarok
Amarok: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
Amarok: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use 
amarokapp.
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file 
/home/me/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made.desktop has Type=Link 
instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : 
/home/me/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file 
/home/me/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-1.desktop has Type=Link 
instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : 
/home/me/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-1.desktop
kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file 
/home/me/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-2.desktop has Type=Link 
instead of "Application" or "Service"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : 
/home/me/.local/share/applications/alacarte-made-2.desktop
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8126c78 ): 
KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x8126c78 ): 
KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout 
for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
	StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> 
ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
me at bunlaptop:~$ amarok: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype 
application/ogg
amarok: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype application/ogg
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: SlavePool: No communication with slave.
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: SlavePool: No communication with slave.
QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::activePartChanged( KParts::Part 
* ) to KHTMLPart::slotActiveFrameChanged( KParts::Part * )
ssh mediawiki at gaDDkio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: SlavePool: No communication with slave.
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: SlavePool: No communication with slave.
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: SlavePool: No communication with slave.
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-19721' to 'amarok'
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1)
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
   Major opcode:  7
   Minor opcode:  0
   Resource id:  0x580001c
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me at bunlaptop:~$ amarokapp
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x81347f0 ): 
KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x81347f0 ): 
KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout 
for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
	StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> 
ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
STARTUP
amarok: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype application/ogg
amarok: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype application/ogg
QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::activePartChanged( KParts::Part 
* ) to KHTMLPart::slotActiveFrameChanged( KParts::Part * )
me at bunlaptop:~$ amarokapp
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x809cdd8 ): 
KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x809cdd8 ): 
KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout 
for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow
QObject::connect: Incompatible sender/receiver arguments
	StarManager::ratingsColorsChanged() --> 
ContextBrowser::ratingOrScoreOrLabelsChanged(const QString&)
STARTUP
amarok: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype application/ogg
amarok: WARNING: Pixmap not found for mimetype application/ogg
QObject::disconnect: Unexpected null parameter
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::activePartChanged( KParts::Part 
* ) to KHTMLPart::slotActiveFrameChanged( KParts::Part * )
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Copying this in google didn't help me much.
Can someone give me an hand? this is driving me nuts!

I can provide other log if necessary

Cheers!




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