long (25 seconds) pause when starting hal-device-manager

[David Zeuthen]

On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 15:34 -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have dbus 0.60, hal 0.5.6, and udev 079 on Linux 2.6.15.  When I start
> hal-device-manager there is a 25-second pause before anything happens.
> According to the strace, during the pause both hal-device-manager and
> the system dbus daemon are in poll(), waiting for the other to say
> something, basically.

I think this is a well-known problem with introspection and the python
bindings. John?

Cheers,
David