Revelation slow to open file - en message catalog missing?

Having the same problem on Xubuntu Hardy Heron with my Inspiron 1420 laptop ... although Revelation takes about half an hour to fully load and be functional.

Has anyone got an idea of how to work around this - i haven't got access to any of my passwords until this gets fixed (well, i do, but it takes about half an hour to open revelation, then another half hour till i can choose a password to retrieve, then another half hour to close it).

I get the same messages about a missing language file.

flowbot wrote:
> Has anyone got an idea of how to work around this
1. migrate to keepassx
2. recompile your own revelation
3. fix the broken package and submit the fix upstream

None are pain-free. I plan to do (1) when I can spare the time. I will
certainly find the time if an upgrade to hardy causes revelation to take
half an hour to open. Talk about motivation :-)

Tony

>1. migrate to keepassx

i once tried to do this, but it appears that revelation and keepassx use different formats, and none of the export formats support by revelation are able to be imported into keepassx.

>2. recompile your own revelation

just tried this (building from source), but the problem presists.

>3. fix the broken package and submit the fix upstream

this is probably out of my league at the moment, but hopefully someone who can help will run into this same problem.

well, this was fixed by re-installing final release of Xubuntu Hardy Heron for me.

Tony: Has the problem been solved with an upgrade to Hardy for you too?

I dont think so. Revelation is currently loading relatively quickly, but I think that's because of cached filesystems.

If I run strace, I see it's still trying to find the EN version of revelation.mo:

From the command:

A snippet:
stat64("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0xbfadf378) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

See these commands

$ strace -e trace=file revelation myfile 2>&1 | egrep 'usr/share.*\/en.*revelation.mo' | grep 'No such file' | wc -l
1968

$ dpkg -L revelation | grep revelation.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo

So it still appears that revelation is spending ages looking for an EN version of revelation.mo, and one is *not* in the package.

I call it unfixed.

Thanks.

As nobody CBA, here's a catalog for ya.

Thanks AsstZD, but it didn''t seem to make a difference to the symptom (slow to open).

I can see via strace that revelation notices the file, but it still then just keeps looking for it, or another.

The following command is a snippet from strace running with "-e trace=stat" - i.e. it's filtering only on the stat commands. It finds the one I installed, and then keeps looking.

[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=32741, ...}) = 0
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d09a0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=32741, ...}) = 0
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d0ad0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d07c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU.UTF8/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d07c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d07c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 11411] stat("/usr/share/locale-langpack/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/revelation.mo", 0x7fffb02d07c0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

This is the full revelation capture, but trimmed to surrounding the locale part. You can see that it finds the revelation.mo file, reads it, and then keeps looking

FWIW, I found that running revelation from the command line and setting LANG=C reduces startup time and doesn't show the endless attempts to read the .mo files