Launching k3b takes 20 minutes.

[Donald Grbac]

Hello everyone!

I have a frustrating problem I am trying to solve.

I have been a Linux user for many years and I am currently using
PCLinuxOS since its final version came available last year.  One of my
most used applications is k3b, and everything has been working well
until very recently.

I noticed a k3b upgrade was available in the PCLinuxOS repository, so
(innocently enough)  I  upgraded k3b.   Since then, k3b takes
approximately 20 minutes to launch.  I have been working with the
PCLinuxOS Support Forum to try to figure this out, so far with no luck.

Using the "top" console command, I determined that k3b was running the
following series of commands:

k3b
cdrdao
wodim
dvd+rw-format
growisofs
genisoimage
normalize
readom
sox
transcode
vcdxbuild
vcdxminfo
vcdxrip
k3b
(repeats)

It takes about 10 minutes to run through the set once, then the set
repeats.  This accounts for the 20 minute launch time.  After this, k3b
comes up as expected.

Does anyone here have any idea what is happening?

Several suggestions have already been tried with no luck, including:

Doing a full upgrade,
Completely removing k3b and the commands shown above, and reinstalling
the Synaptic package files.

K3b acts the same whether launched from the KDE menu or from a console
window.

All other PCLinuxOS users claim they don't see this problem.


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[Glenn-5]

On Saturday 12 July 2008 13:20:51 Donald Grbac wrote:

>
> All other PCLinuxOS users claim they don't see this problem.
>
>

Darn, you beat me to the punch <g>.  I'm using K3b to copy some audio CDs as I
type this, using PCLinuxOS and k3b ver 1.0.5.  Are you using a version out of
the testing repo, by any chance?


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Today is what happened to yesterday.

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[Donald Grbac]

Thanks for the reply.

No, as far as I know I am not using the "testing repository".  Synoptic lists several repositories.  At first I assumed they were all mirrors of each other.  Then I discovered the one I first chose had little in it, and the others had much more.  So, I activated several for the search option.

I didn't ask this question to the PCLinuxOS group, but should I just be using one repository?  And if so, which one?  A user wants access to all possible applications - of course.

Glenn wrote:

On Saturday 12 July 2008 13:20:51 Donald Grbac wrote:

  

All other PCLinuxOS users claim they don't see this problem.


    

Darn, you beat me to the punch <g>.  I'm using K3b to copy some audio CDs as I 
type this, using PCLinuxOS and k3b ver 1.0.5.  Are you using a version out of 
the testing repo, by any chance? 


  

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[Glenn-5]

On Sunday 13 July 2008 10:44:47 Donald Grbac wrote:

>  Thanks for the reply.
>
>  No, as far as I know I am not using the "testing repository".  Synoptic
> lists several repositories.  At first I assumed they were all mirrors of
> each other.  Then I discovered the one I first chose had little in it, and
> the others had much more.  So, I activated several for the search option.
>
>  I didn't ask this question to the PCLinuxOS group, but should I just be
> using one repository?  And if so, which one?  A user wants access to all
> possible applications - of course.
>

We're getting off-topic but, yes, one repo should do it (and that's what's
recommended by Texstar and the rest of the developers.)  If you want to live
on the bleeding edge, you can manually add the testing repository into the
list.  I wouldn't recommend it for a system that you want to keep running
without hiccups, though.


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