(2012-01-26, 12:39)jhsrennie Wrote: Taking 1 minute to get to the Home screen is unlikely to be related to either of the two errors mentioned above. The most likely cause is having zeroconf and/or airplay enabled in the settings.
I can confirm this issue on Windows, with some additional complications:
When I copied the Kodi
userdata folder from LibreELEC to Windows, Kodi for Windows started exhibiting this slow startup issue, but Airplay and Zeroconf were NOT enabled in the U.I. on LibreELEC. Airplay likewise does not appear as enabled in the Kodi Windows U.I. However, I see that it is enabled in the Kodi user profile which was copied, and this was the source of the slow startup problem:
xml:
C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\profiles\Testing\guisettings.xml
xml:
<setting id="services.airplay" default="true">true</setting>
If I change the Airplay setting under this profile, or delete the profile and
profiles.xml, Kodi starts more quickly. (I initially did not notice that the
Testing profile was the source of the problem because I expected Kodi to start with the
Master User profile.)
Why am I reviving this old thread? --Because the
Backup utility which I need to migrate
userdata across a network seems partially broken in current builds of Kodi, so data must be copied manually, and that creates problems like this. So the issue still exists, and may become more common again. The long startup issue is also problematic because nothing appears on screen in Windows when Kodi is launched, until that delay has elapsed.
In my opinion, Kodi should display the splash screen BEFORE attempting to initialize this service, and it should have a verbose boot mode which is similar to the one in Windows (where it tells you what services are starting before login). Except for some cryptic message in the Kodi log, the U.I. communicates nothing to the user which would help them to troubleshoot this issue, and that is an undesirable behaviour.