Slow startup after upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04

I have the exact same problem with checkgmail on 8.04. I also tried to purge and reinstall - with no luck. it ran normal fast on 7.10
My system:
Intel Pentium M @1500 Mhz
Ati radeon mobility 7500 (M7) with the xorg driver
1 GB RAM

I have the same problem on 8.04. I tried to install the gtk2-perl version that was in gutsy as I tought something in that package had made this behavior. But no luck, still this problem.

Same problem.

AMD Sempron 3000, 512 MB RAM

I have precisely the same problem here; older box, AMD Duron 512Mb RAM. The strange thing is, it works fine on my main box which has a P4 processor with 1.5 Gb RAM. Once it does finally startup (which can take about 40 secs and with the same 100% processor usage), it subsequently works fine.

Same for me, Asus laptop with Intel Core Duo processor.
Excessive CPU usage by checkgmail during startup for about half a minute, after that it works fine.
Please let me know if you need any diagnostic material.

Well, this is great, I'm not the only one. This little program is very useful. I'm unproductive without it. I have exactly the same issues here. Ubuntu 8.04 on a Vaio VGN-FS series, Intel 915 and Celeron M chipset and processor. Slow, very slow and very CPU intensive. I'm willing to help with any needed attachments or logs, just point me in the right direction. Please consider fixing this.

Message from the developer:

Ok, try the latest release from SVN (run checkgmail -update to get it) and then run the code with

checkgmail -debug

The package about to be loaded will be printed on the commandline, then checkgmail will attempt to load it. After all packages are loaded, and a bit of processing is done, you should see the message "Initialisation complete". On my system all packages are loaded in under a second, with perhaps another half-second before the "Initialisation complete" message. But on your setup, there should be a delay after one of these packages.

Let me know which one(s), and we'll take it from there ... And feel free to copy this message to the launchpad forum :)

Cheers,
Owen

The delay occurs while loading Gtk2::Sexy for me.

My output (checkgmail -no-login -debug):

 use Gtk2("init");
 use Gtk2::TrayIcon;
 use threads;
 use Thread::Queue;
 use Thread::Semaphore;
 use threads::shared;
 use Encode;
 use XML::Simple;
 use FileHandle;
 use LWP::UserAgent;
 use Crypt::SSLeay;

  use Crypt::Simple passphrase => "(I removed this from the output)";
Warning: Crypt::Simple not found ...
  use Crypt::Blowfish;
  use FreezeThaw;
  use Compress::Zlib;
  use Digest::MD5;
  use MIME::Base64;

CheckGmail requires the above packages for password encryption
Please download and install from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org) if you want to use this feature ...

 use Gtk2::Sexy;
Warning: Gtk2::Sexy not found ...

CheckGmail uses Gtk2::Sexy for clickable URLs in mail messages
Please download and install from CPAN (http://search.cpan.org) if you want to use this feature ...

*** Crypt::Simple not found, not working or disabled ***
*** Passwords will be saved in plain text only ... ***

(HERE is the delay)

Initialisation complete

(the best part is: even thought "Gtk2::Sexy not found" message, URLs are clickable)

Exatly the same here.

the same here.
if start checkgmail from Terminal, it returns the above things, and checkgmail can start
if start checkgmail from Applications/Network/checkgmail, get nothing.

With the new verison (debug mode), the delay is at:
Parent: Reading translations ...
Also waits a bit at:
Parent: Reading prefs ...

Exactly the same as fishi - a long delay at "Parent: Reading translations" and a slightly shorter one at "Parent: Reading prefs"

I've found a way to make checkgmail load quickly again, but it's a bit of a hack.

1. edit /usr/bin/checkgmail. Go to line 3088 and then delete all the Language definitions, with the exception of the one that you want to keep (in my case, English).
2. edit ~/.checkgmail/lang.xml. Do the same thing.

The only problem is that you need to re-do step 1 each time you download a new version.

Pete

Pete,

although it's a hackie, it works perfect, it is much faster now ( about 4 seconds)
Thanks !

regards,
Harry

Duplicate status wrong.

To fix the problem, add

$ENV{XML_SIMPLE_PREFERRED_PARSER} = 'XML::Parser';

after line 44 of /usr/bin/checkgmail

like mentioned here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1927472&group_id=137480&atid=738663

No problems with Intrepid.

Hi, can you all test this in intrepid?

CheckGmail works perfectly well in Intrepid for me. Startup takes about a second plus another few seconds to connect to Gmail. Opening Preferences is also fast again.

Fixed for me too (from duplicate).

This problem has been resolved for me too now that I have upgraded to
Intrepid.

regards

Steve

I'm using Intrepid and the version of checkgmail that is in the repositories. No problems encountered.

Ok, marking the bug as "invalid". (It'd be "fix released", but we don't know what fixed it)