Bug#246651: bug-buddy takes very long to start up

[Johannes Berg]

Package: bug-buddy
Version: 2.4.2-1
Severity: normal

When starting up bug-buddy while not connected to the internet,
it takes a long time to start up (ca. 40 seconds).

Running gdb at that time and getting a backtrace yields:
#0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x408098c3 in __read_nocancel () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
#2  0x4027dff9 in gnome_vfs_inet_connection_get_fd ()
   from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#3  0x40290f22 in gnome_vfs_socket_read () from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#4  0x402908bc in gnome_vfs_socket_buffer_destroy ()
   from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#5  0x402909df in gnome_vfs_socket_buffer_read ()
   from /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
#6  0x40f31b68 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libhttp.so

which appears to be some connection bug-buddy tries to make to the internet,
but which times out.

This is extremely annoying because everytime I want to use bug-buddy I
have to wait 40 seconds for it to start up.

Whatever bug-buddy is doing (updating its product list?) should probably
be done asynchronously or in another thread, so that the GUI starts up.
Older versions of bug-buddy had a "cancel"-button to abort network connections
(which never worked right for me, but thats another thing) that would
be very useful in the current bug-buddy as well.

Regards,
Johannes Berg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages bug-buddy depends on:
ii  gdb                         6.1-2        The GNU Debugger
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-5     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.0.1-13   Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2          2.4.1-9      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-11     The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-12   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-4      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.6-2        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libxml2                     2.6.9-1      GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-8     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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