Launching k3b takes 20 minutes.

Hello everyone!

I have a frustrating problem I am trying to solve.

I have been a Linux user for many years and I am currently using 
PCLinuxOS since its final version came available last year.  One of my 
most used applications is k3b, and everything has been working well 
until very recently.

I noticed a k3b upgrade was available in the PCLinuxOS repository, so 
(innocently enough)  I  upgraded k3b.   Since then, k3b takes 
approximately 20 minutes to launch.  I have been working with the 
PCLinuxOS Support Forum to try to figure this out, so far with no luck.

Using the "top" console command, I determined that k3b was running the 
following series of commands:

k3b
cdrdao
wodim
dvd+rw-format
growisofs
genisoimage
normalize
readom
sox
transcode
vcdxbuild
vcdxminfo
vcdxrip
k3b
(repeats)

It takes about 10 minutes to run through the set once, then the set 
repeats.  This accounts for the 20 minute launch time.  After this, k3b 
comes up as expected.

Does anyone here have any idea what is happening?

Several suggestions have already been tried with no luck, including:

Doing a full upgrade,
Completely removing k3b and the commands shown above, and reinstalling 
the Synaptic package files.

K3b acts the same whether launched from the KDE menu or from a console 
window.

All other PCLinuxOS users claim they don't see this problem.


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