Unbearably slow load time

[Cliff Dyer]

libtool version 1.5.10


>From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>To: Cliff Dyer <jcliffdyer at hotmail.com>
>CC: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
>Subject: Re: Unbearably slow load time
>Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:26:58 -0500
>
>What version of libtool do you have?
>
>I think this is a *BSD issue as nobody on Linux has ever shown this
>unbearably slow loadtime.  I suspect it's an issue with the netbsd
>runtime linker or perhaps the libtool library.
>
>Your signal handler issue definitely looks like a runtime linker
>problem and/or libtool problem which I'm fairly sure has been
>discussed before.
>
>-derek
>
>Cliff Dyer <jcliffdyer at hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am running gnucash 1.8.9 on NetBSD 1.6.2 on an IBM ThinkPad T23, from 
>the
> > pkgsrc collection.
> >
> > It is compiled against:
> >
> > ORBit-0.5.15nb7
> > g-wrap-1.3.4nb6
> > g-wrap-1.3.4nb6
> > gal-0.22nb6
> > gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0nb3
> > glib-1.2.10nb8
> > gnome-libs-1.4.2nb4
> > gnome-print-0.36nb6
> > gnome1-dirs-1.5
> > gtkhtml-1.1.10nb5
> > guile-1.6.6
> > guppi-0.40.3nb13
> > libglade-0.17nb7
> > libxml-1.8.17nb3
> > p5-Date-Manip-5.42anb1
> > p5-finance-quote-1.08nb2
> > popt-1.7nb5
> > xdg-x11-dirs-1.1
> >
> > When I try to fire it up (from a terminal), it does a whole lot of 
>nothing
> > before it ever loads up.  Looking at the output of top, guile ran for 
>19m 37s
> > of processor time before the splash screen even came up.  The main 
>window
> > appeared after 20m 16s of processor time (from the initial invocation, 
>not
> >>From the splash screen) and a whopping 52 minutes of real time.
> >
> >
> >  During operation, I got the following errors (some repeatedly):
> >
> > ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_date_cb'.
> > ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'gnc_register_today_cb'.
> > ** WARNING **: could not find signal handler 
>'gnc_register_date_toggle_cb'.
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_block_by_data(): could not find
> > handlercontaining data (0xDEADBEEF)
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_handler_unblock_by_data(): could not find
> > blocked handler containing data (0xOXDEADBEEF)
> >
> > And finally, when I accidentally opened an edit account window, I got 
>the
> > following:
> >
> > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkarrow.c: line 174 (gtk_arrow_set): assertion
> > `GTK_IS_ARROW (arrow)' failed.
> >
> > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktogglebutton.c: line 284
> > (gtk_toggle_button_set_active): assertion `GTK_IS_TOGGLE_BUTTON
> > (toggle_button)' failed.
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler
> > containing data (0x8A17600)
> >
> >
> > And then the program crashed.  This was my first time using GnuCash.
> >
> > I'm guessing this is some problem in the libraries I'm using.  Any 
>advice?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Cliff
> >
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>
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>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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