KDE apps take forever to launch

[gpothier]

Binary package hint: kdebase

This is in karmic. Since today's updates, some kde apps take a very long time to launch (from 30 seconds to more than 2 minutes). During that time, there is no disk activity, and the CPU is mostly idle. They also sometimes take forever to close.
Apps that have the problem: Kate, Dolphin, Konqueror, Kopete
Apps that do not have the problem: Konsole, Okular, System settings, krdc

At some point, when launching an app that has the problem from a terminal, I saw something about a Nepomuk service that could not be reached, unfortunately I cannot reproduce it anymore.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 30 11:44:17 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: kdebase (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686

[gpothier (gpothier)]

This is no longer occurring with latest updates.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Great! Glad to hear it.