BlueDevil causes slow start KDE?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 12:01:23 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 23:45 +0100, Martin Kho wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2011 14:29:19 Martin Kho wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When BlueDevil is enabled in rawhide and I log in into KDE it takes more
> > time for the second 'boot-icon' appears than when BlueDevil is disabled.
> > Also when I log out it takes more time than normal. In .xsession-errors I
> > see a  message that BluedDevil was crashed because of a fatal I/O-error.
> > May be the slowness and crash have to do with the fact that I don't have
> > any bluetooth adapters. I'm still using a medieval desktop pc :-)
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Disabling BlueDevil in System Settings was not enough, I had to 
> remove/uninstall bluez and (lib)bluedevil, because the Bluetooth daemon was 
> still started by amarok / cagibid. Huh, a music app that invokes Bluetooth? 
> The slowness was actually caused by NetworkManager that needed a minute or so 
> to time out on a non-existing Bluetooth adapter.
> 
> IMHO the dependency of amarok on Bluetooth is a design fault. Some other 
> thoughts?

Must be for BT headsets and such, but it should be optional.

poc



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