Re: Weird startup behaviour of amarok
On Tuesday 13 August 2013 23:09:54 Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every time I want to start amarok, I have to start it twice before I can
> actually use it.
> I always thought it was weird, so when I wanted to start amarok this time,
> I had the System Activity window open, filtered on 'ama', and this is what
> I saw: - I start amarok through KickOff
> - I see that 2 amarok proces get started and some seconds later 1 process
> stops/dies and another amarok process is started and in the 'CPU %' column
> it shows 'zombie'.
> - Some seconds later the zombie process disappears and 3 new process are
> shown (with filter still on 'ama' ! ), namely kio_trash and 2 kio_file ?!?
> - Amarok still doesn't show ...
> - Then I start amarok again through KickOff and the amarok window shows ...
> - Some seconds later the 3 kio processes aren't visible anymore
> (killed/stopped/?)
>
> However if I kill (end process) the non-visible amarok process before
> starting it again, the whole process repeat itself from the start.
>
> Amarok 2.7.1 running on KDE 4.10.5 (but I've noticed this behaviour for
> quite a while before 4.10)
>
> Anyone similar behaviour and/or has a 'fix' or is this 'normal' ?
>
> Diederik
I sometimes experience a very slow startup of Amarok. I'll pay a bit more
attention to it. I tested, but I can't reproduce your scenario. I run Amarok
2.7.1, and KDE from testing.
Robert
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