OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[John Lagrue]

Mike Klinke wrote:

>On Thursday 02 December 2004 18:47, JL wrote:
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>>>16:54:11 $ date;ooffice;date
>>>Thu Dec  2 17:28:44 CST 2004
>>>Thu Dec  2 17:28:55 CST 2004
>>>
>>>This time reflects the second invocation, not the first (it was
>>>near 25 seconds). I have trimmed the spell checker file and I'm
>>>using the XFce desktop if that makes a difference.
>>>      
>>>
>>That's the sort of speed I got with FC 2. Having done a clean
>>install of FC3 the performance has fallen through the floor.
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>This was also a clean FC3 install.  This tells me that it's not a 
>fundamental problem with OpenOffice but rather something associated 
>with the environment.  Perhaps running "strace ooffice"  will allow 
>you to see what's hanging up.
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>Regards, Mike Klinke
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I tried running strace oowriter......here's the end of the output where 
it is hanging up.

time(NULL)                              = 1102119632
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 27
fcntl64(27, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
setsockopt(27, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
setsockopt(27, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
connect(27, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), 
sin_addr=inet_addr("64.15.205.241")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection 
refused)
close(27)                               = 0

which then repeats with ther addresses 64.15.205.155, 64.15.205.180, 
64.15.205.202, and several others. The  delay in starting is caused by 
the timeout on all the connections. Can anybody explain what on earth is 
happening?

JDL