PCLinuxEdu : Gcompris slow to start in live (Solved)

[melodie]

Hi,
While testing the version published in French, a guy said Gcompris did not launch from the desktop icon. In fact it does but takes so much time you could start 3 other programs while it launches.

I tested, and confirm. I tried to use the good prelink program to attempt to solve the issue. At same time I try to spare Cdroms, so once prelink installed, configured, and the install of pclinuxos education fr remastered once more, I installed to USB Stick with the great script from Just18, PCLinuxOS Live USB. The result is : in Live, it's still very long before it starts while in Persistent mode it runs instantly, provided it has been ran once, before.

I all cases the latest in French contains the hidden config files from Gcompris : in the home of "school" (ecole in French) and in /etc/skel/.config/

If anyone has a good idea about how it occurs and how to eventually solve this, it would be most welcome !

Regards,
Mélodie

[AS]

The result is : in Live, it's still very long before it starts while in Persistent mode it runs instantly, provided it has been ran once, before.

That's look like some initialization activity, which occur one time while using persistence, but need to be performed each time when running live...

If so, performing a remaster *after* gcompris has been already ran at least once, should solve the issue.

AS

[melodie]

The result is : in Live, it's still very long before it starts while in Persistent mode it runs instantly, provided it has been ran once, before.

That's look like some initialization activity, which occur one time while using persistence, but need to be performed each time when running live...

If so, performing a remaster *after* gcompris has been already ran at least once, should solve the issue.

AS

Hi,
Sorry I was a bit tired when I posted, I thought I post because it's been two days I thought I would.

Running Gcompris once prior to remastering, and copy the new files to /etc/skel : $HOME/.config/gcompris, and $HOME/My Gcompris is what I tried first. It was not giving the expected result, so I added prelink (and put "rpm -e prelink" in the rc.sysinit to be removed at post-install).

After adding prelink it was not giving the expected result either. It seams that it creates a db file at each new start... but I am not sure why it does that, and if it would be as long in the normal install if launched in a new Xsession.

This is why I am asking help to try to see if it can be improved.

Regards,
Mélodie

[melodie]

Hi,
I just burned a CD to offer to my son, (the very latest with gcompris config files and prelink at work in the Live) and surprise : in Live CD Gcompris has started at once !

I'll have to do more tests in the Live USB. I don't know why in it's Live boot it didn't run at once as in the Live CD.

[melodie]

Hi,

The following setup solved the issue:

Code:

# prelink -vmR /usr/bin/gcompris

The prelink.cache then is not bigger than 5.5KB and the result is at it's best !

Regards,
Mélodie