Bug 93610 – OpenOffice.org 1.9.104 slow startup

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jonathan Ho 2005-05-22 14:37:27 UTC]

OpenOffice.org 1.9.104 starts up *very* slowly (~1 min.). When I launch it (any
component), nothing happens for about one minute, then the splash screen comes
and everything goes fine.

P.S. I'm using the IBM JDK version 1.4.2.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start openoffice (any component)

Actual Results:  
Started only after ~1 min.

Expected Results:  
Should have started ~10-20 secs.

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 30 2005, 16:26:09)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://130.207.108.135/pub/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss
encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk2 hal howl
imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg
ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python
quicktime readline sdl spell sqlite ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-05-22 16:00:03 UTC]

well, it's beta software

[Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2005-05-22 23:05:08 UTC]

Sorry, you mark a bug in a hard masked version as critical? Not taking this,
this is beta, expect problems, there is a reason why it is not ready for general use

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-06-08 10:43:51 UTC]

*** Bug 95474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 t35t0r 2005-06-08 11:14:42 UTC]

Please see the Bug 95474 . I believe this is the reason why it's starting up so
slowly. Have you tried the openoffice 1.9.104 release directly from
openoffice.org? I'm going to try that next and if that is broken also I will
post a bug at openoffice.org .

[Comment 5 t35t0r 2005-07-06 12:46:18 UTC]

The problem may be that you are using a 64bit version of java on a 64bit system
and the openoffice that are all currently available are 32 bit binaries (unless
you compile a 64bit from the source ..but this is pointless). I give a solution
here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92378#c7