Since upgrading to 2.25 from 2.22 (Windows Vista 32-bit), I've been experiencing issues where calibre quite often gets hung up at the Splash Screen on "Initializing user interface". Killing the process and trying again usually makes it go OK. When launching from the desktop shortcut, this seems to happen a little less than 50% of the time. Now for some odd details:
- If I start normally from the command-line, the hang up occasionally happens, but very rarely.
- If I start using calibre-debug -g, it never hangs (at least I've not gotten it to happen yet, and I've tried ... a lot
).
- If I start using the Windows dependency-walker tool and profile the startup process of calibre, I can't get it to hang (again ... yet. But not for lack of trying)
- If I disable the splash screen in calibre's preferences, I can't get it to hang.
Now, I personally have no problem with leaving the splash-screen disabled and going about my business, but I admit this seemingly debug-proof (at least with my limited debug knowledge/tools) issue has piqued my curiosity.
Anybody know of anything else I can try to see where things might be going wrong?