Kopete is very slow to start (about 10 minutes !)

[Nicolas DERIVE]

Binary package hint: kopete

Kopete is very slow to start every time, it takes between 8 to 10 minutes to load. When launching it in a terminal, I get the thing in the file joined (because it is big !)

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

I've 3 msn accounts and 3 jabber ones, one IRC and one for kopete testing. I use Feisty.

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

Probably an issue with your own settings, as nobody already repoted this kind of error.
What happens if you remove your ~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc and ~/.kde/share/apps/kopete datas and reconfigure kopete ?

[Torsten Knodt (torsknod)]

My kopete start is also very slow, also when opening a new chat window.
As a hint, I found two causes so far.
1.) my IMAP addressbook, requiring kmail to start first
2.) the enabled history plugin

[Hans Harhoff Andersen (hansharhoff)]

My kopete is also very slow to start. I have disabled the history plugin. Still slow. There is no output in terminal(at all)

[Matt Rogers (mattr-kde)]

turn off the statistics plugin if it's enabled.
addressbook associations in the contact list can also make kopete slower.

[Alberto Torres (kungfoobar)]

It is definitely the statistics plugin!
1 minute 30 to just open before it tries to connect. This time is reduced to almost nothing after disabling the plugin.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Re-opening. I'm very much experiencing this currently:
With statistics plugin enabled: 1:20 to start, without:

real 0m3.448s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.012s

Activating the statistics plugin already blocks the UI.
When starting with the plugin enabled, I'm getting the following before the (first) forking alone:
real 0m25.386s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.012s

STDERR:

$ time kopete
kopete(4696) Kopete::IdentityManager::load: Created identity "CBNk7T72Y1"
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kopete(4696) Kopete::IdleTimer::IdleTimer: Using platform idle timer
kopete(4696)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn't know "/home/daniel/.kde/share/apps/kabc"
kopete(4696)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/kopete_history.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
kopete(4695): Communication problem with "kopete" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "

real 0m25.386s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.012s
daniel@base [es:255] { ~ }
$ QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/daniel/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
kopete(4696)/libkopete Kopete::PluginManager::loadPluginInternal: Unable to find a plugin named ' "" '!
Calling appendChild() on a null node does nothing.
kopete(4696) Kopete::AccountManager::setOnlineStatus: category: 2 status title: "Online" status message: ""
Unknown signature value: 795
kopete(4696) OscarStatusManager::onlineStatusOf: Creating Kopete::OnlineStatus for ExtStatus, internal status: 8198
kopete(4696) OscarStatusManager::onlineStatusOf: Creating Kopete::OnlineStatus for ExtStatus, internal status: 8198
kopete(4696) OscarStatusManager::onlineStatusOf: Creating Kopete::OnlineStatus for ExtStatus, internal status: 8196
kopete(4696) OscarStatusManager::onlineStatusOf: Creating Kopete::OnlineStatus for ExtStatus, internal status: 8198
kopete(4696) OscarStatusManager::onlineStatusOf: Creating Kopete::OnlineStatus for ExtStatus, internal status: 8196
kopete(4696) OscarStatusManager::onlineStatusOf: Creating Kopete::OnlineStatus for ExtStatus, internal status: 8196

I can provide strace output (via "strace -f -t -o").

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!