K3B loading takes oddly long time.

cerealdaemon · 10-11-2005, 08:39 PM

I am running Fedora Core 4, on good hardware, a cd-rw and a dvd/cd-rw with 1 gig of ram. Whenever I click K3B to load, it usually takes a solid 3 minutes or more to get to a useable program. The splash stays on screen for what is usually about 2 minutes and then blinks off and a minute or so after that, K3B will let me use it. Does anyone know what could cause this to happen? I'm at a loss as to why all my other programs initialize and run quite quickly and this one does not. Any ideas?

evans0409 · 10-12-2005, 12:07 AM

are you running it from kde or gnome? if from gnome, you might want to check that you have the full kde base installed. i use gnome 2.12, and k3b takes about 15 seconds to start from "cold". I also have current hardware, a gig of ram and a 3.4G P4

jschiwal · 10-12-2005, 12:19 AM

You may also try starting K3b from a shell. Some of the messages printed out may indicate what is taking so long.

dudeman41465 · 10-12-2005, 01:20 AM

If you are using gnome then you could try using "gnomebaker". It's a cd writer program that is made for gnome and has all of the same options as k3b.