gnucash VERY slow startup

[Dewey Hylton]

Quoting Chris Shenton <chris at Shenton.Org>:

> Did you ever get a resolution on your gnucash freebsd slow start?  I'm
> running on a 1.8GHz Dell with 5.2-CURRENT and it takes more like 10-20
> minutes to start.  A truss seems to show *lots* of failed access() and
> open() for various libraries.
> 
> If you never found a fix, I guess I'll do some more trussing and see
> if the FreeBSD and/or GnuCash folks can infer the cause.  It's totally
> unusable as it is :-(

unfortunately, no. while i'm an experienced unix sysadmin (most flavors of *nix)
my programming knowledge is mostly limited to shell and perl - so debugging
gnucash is largely out of the question for myself. i haven't heard from anyone
else, either.

we're hearing that it's probably a *bsd issue, but i just can't imagine that
nobody else is using gnucash on *bsd - but if others are, why haven't they
complained about this same issue? one possible answer could be that the others
who use *bsd and have experienced this are simply more of the programmer-type
and have fixed the issue themselves.

whatever the answer, i sure hope someone sends it my way ...

good luck, and thanks for the followup. i'm glad i'm not alone ...