amarok on ubuntu hardy takes 15 minutes to startup

[musicman]

I found moving from the SQLLite backend to the MySQL backend worked
pretty well in reagrds to speeding up load times significantly. You
might want to try that.

It's a fairly simple process that is very well documented in the forums.

see this for example:

http://mikesubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-to-set-up-mysql-database-in-amarok.html

or from the KDE crowd: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_HowTo

cheers
L.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Dvorzhetsky <dvorzhetsky at airpost.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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 * )
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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