[XBoard-devel] Fwd: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34202] xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with Ubuntu 11.04

[Arun Persaud]

Hello

we got the following bug report... anyone running xboard on ubuntu 11.04
and can confirm this?

Arun

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34202] xboard has a 20-second startup delay
running with Ubuntu 11.04
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:21:12 +0000

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34202>

                 Summary: xboard has a 20-second startup delay running with
Ubuntu 11.04
                 Project: XBoard
            Submitted by: rkircher
            Submitted on: Sun 04 Sep 2011 03:21:11 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

This is the same problem that has been reported on the web
many times with no solution posted.  For example, it is
described very well at:
http://old.nabble.com/Extremely-slow-startup-td29341827.html

My startup time is 40-seconds, and is even slower.  It takes 20-seconds for
the xboard graphics to be shown and then
another 20-seconds for the menus to be added and become
functional.

I think the problem is strongly related to Ubuntu 11.04 because
I have taken early versions (4.2.x) from an OpenSUSE 11.0
installation and used it to replace the xboard executable in
version 4.5.x in Ubuntu 11.04 and it changes from a startup
time of about 1/2-second in openSUSE 11.0 to 40-seconds running under Ubuntu
11.04.

The delay may be in the video because I can't run Unity in
Ubuntu 11.04 and use the older Gnome 2.0 with no special effects.  I think
Unity sucks, but for this problem I loaded
Unity 2D and it had no effect on the xboard startup delay.

Otherwise the bug is the same as posted elsewhere on the web.