Bug#714920: ekiga: slow startup

[mazzeppanell]

Package: ekiga
Version: 4.0.1-2
Severity: minor

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Hi,
i found Ekiga a bit slow at startup. Since this could be a subjective tought, I started the program in command line with "ekiga -d 3".
Here is an excerpt of what i got in the points with a noticeable time gap:

< ... >
2013/07/04 10:32:28.099	  0:00.376	                       	Ekiga	Started STUN detector
2013/07/04 10:32:28.211	  0:00.487	StunDetector:0xadabeb40	OPAL	STUN server "stun.ekiga.net" replies Cone NAT, external IP <Public_IP>
2013/07/04 10:32:28.211	  0:00.487	StunDetector:0xadabeb40	PTLib	Thread ended: name="StunDetector:0xadabeb40", real=0.111, kernel=0.000 (0%), user=0.000 (0%), both=0.000 (0%)
2013/07/04 10:32:28.275	  0:00.551	                       	PV4L2Plugin	Detecting V4L2 devices
2013/07/04 10:32:28.275	  0:00.551	                       	PV4L2Plugin	detected device metadata at /sys/class/video4linux/
< 10 seconds "inactivity/elaboration" as you can see >
2013/07/04 10:32:38.089	  0:10.366	 Housekeeper:0xadf0cb40	Ekiga	Stopped STUN detector
< 15 seconds "inactivity/elaboration" as you can see >
2013/07/04 10:32:53.370	  0:25.647	                       	PV4L2Plugin	Detecting V4L2 devices
2013/07/04 10:32:53.370	  0:25.647	                       	PV4L2Plugin	detected device metadata at /sys/class/video4linux/
2013/07/04 10:32:53.445	  0:25.722	                       	PV4L2Plugin	Detecting V4L2 devices
2013/07/04 10:32:53.446	  0:25.722	                       	PV4L2Plugin	detected device metadata at /sys/class/video4linux/
2013/07/04 10:32:53.460	  0:25.737	                       	PV4L2Plugin	Detecting V4L2 devices
2013/07/04 10:32:53.460	  0:25.737	                       	PV4L2Plugin	detected device metadata at /sys/class/video4linux/
2013/07/04 10:32:53.595	  0:25.872	                       	Ekiga version 4.0.1
< application GUI spawns about at this point >
< ... >

About 25 seconds to show the main window. I don't know if this is a normal behaviour and there are legitimate elaborations going on,
that's why i classified the report as minor bug.

P.S. I tried a quick installation on two virtual machines (an ubuntu one and a windows one, both with nat networking) and it seems not to stuck.
Because of the slowdown near STUN operations and video device detection, i tried unchecking "Enable network detection" in Ekiga settings,
but this changed nothing; also could be relevant that there is no webcam detected in virtual machines, so maybe it skips some operations.

Bye.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ekiga depends on:
ii  gconf-service           3.2.6-1
ii  gconf2                  3.2.6-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme        3.8.2-2
ii  libatk1.0-0             2.8.0-2
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.31-2
ii  libavahi-glib1          0.6.31-2
ii  libboost-signals1.49.0  1.49.0-4
ii  libc6                   2.17-6
ii  libcairo2               1.12.14-4
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.6.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.100.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1          2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.8.1-2
ii  libgconf-2-4            3.2.6-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0      2.28.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.36.1-2build1
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.24.18-1
ii  libidn11                1.25-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.31-1+nmu2
ii  libloudmouth1-0         1.4.3-9
ii  libnotify4              0.7.5-2
ii  libopal3.10.10          3.10.10~dfsg-2
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libpt2.10.10            2.10.10~dfsg-2
ii  libsasl2-2              2.1.25.dfsg1-7
ii  libspeexdsp1            1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6              4.8.1-2
ii  libx11-6                2:1.6.0-1
ii  libxext6                2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxml2                 2.9.1+dfsg1-2
ii  libxv1                  2:1.0.7-1+deb7u1

Versions of packages ekiga recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.12.3-4
ii  yelp  3.8.1-2

Versions of packages ekiga suggests:
pn  asterisk                <none>
pn  ekiga-plugin-evolution  <none>
pn  gnugk                   <none>
pn  mediaproxy              <none>
pn  rtpproxy                <none>
pn  ser                     <none>
pn  siproxd                 <none>
pn  yate                    <none>

-- no debconf information