Re: [Banshee-List] Slow startup on Ubuntu 15.04

[Nick Dokos <ndokos gmail com>]

Nick Dokos <ndokos gmail com> writes:

> Bob van der Poel <bob mellowood ca> writes:
>
> > I just upgraded my distro to 15.04 and the startup for Banshee is
> > well over 1 minute. Was working just fine before the upgrade from
> > 14.10.
> >
> > Any ideas as to what's up?
>
> There was an update to sqlite that has disabled an unsafe optimization
> in certain cases. Unfortunately, banshee runs into these cases
> headlong. I run Fedora 20 and that bit me on an update.
>
> There was a report about it (by me, among others) on this ML
> back in October 2014. See the thread starting at
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.mono.banshee/14068
>
> and particularly Bertrand Lorentz's reply
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.mono.banshee/14068/focus=14103
>
> which contains a pointer to the sqlite bug report.
>
> I was hoping that either sqlite would come out with an update that
> speeded up these queries (there was a hope expressed, but not a promise, that
> that would happen, in the above mentioned bug report); or alternatively,
> that banshee would modify its queries along the lines suggested in the
> bug report. Neither has happened yet AFAIK.
>
> I wanted to build latest banshee just to keep track of this problem, but
> I ran into dependency hell and then out of time.
>
> If anybody knows any more, please post: I've fallen back into using
> Rhythmbox for the past couple of months and it's a hard fall :-)

I updated my desktop to Fedora 21 yesterday and I'm thrilled to report
that the problem is gone. Rhythmbox is back in its box :-)

Version info:

$ banshee --version
Banshee 2.6.2 (2.6.2) http://banshee.fm
Copyright 2005-2015 Novell, Inc. and Contributors.
$ sqlite3
SQLite version 3.8.9 2015-04-08 12:16:33

Thanks,
Nick