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[Bruno Nova <1296420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found an upstream bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58758
It's from 2013 and is marked as fixed.
The reporter was suggesting that "pulseaudio.desktop should have NotShowIn=KDE;", which is what the patch I uploaded does and what several people also suggested.
But the actual fix is different.

>From what I understood, the problem is that the startup scripts communicate with avahi synchronously, but "Avahi basically only makes blocking D-Bus calls", so this may cause a delay due to a timeout.
The fix makes these communications asynchronous.
Could this also affects other desktop environments?

Here is the commit that fixes this: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=5ae5dee75eb70ff81414bd64b4ea41e6b8db7599
Here is another commit that mentioned "avahi" in the commit log: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=37e73e10be9e42544a4cc160ff85ccada2cc9aa9
There may be other relevant commits.

I think Pulse Audio 5 has this problem fixed, but Ubuntu still uses version 4.
Even Utopic uses version 4, even though Debian testing and sid are already on 5.
So, that fix has to be backported for Ubuntu.

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #58758
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58758

** Also affects: pulseaudio via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58758
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Pulseaudio makes kde stall for a few seconds during startup

Status in PulseAudio sound server:
  Unknown
Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Quote from this post. :
  http://linuxadvantage.blogspot.dk/2013/01/kde-rather-slow-to-start-pulseaudio.html

  On many distributions delivering KDE, since version 4.2, I have often
  found incomprehensibles slowness between login step and the time the
  desktop is fully loaded and usable.

  Indeed, we can see unfold normally the KDE's "splashscreen" and the
  desktop appears but in the systray, all the icons are not loaded and
  it is not possible to run a program until the startup sound is heard.
  This is long seconds (10 or 15 for me) where nothing happens (no
  visible disk access).

  After answering on this thread [1] , I opened a bug in KDE and it
  appears that the culprit is PulseAudio.

  Indeed, it seems that PulseAudio package for KDE brings 2 startup
  files instead of one: "pulseaudio.desktop" and "pulseaudio-
  kde.desktop"

  This often generates a delay to load the desktop caused by the program
  that is trying to start twice.

  Note that this is not systematic, I guess in some cases, the correct
  file is launched before the bad and in this case, there isn't any
  delays.

  The solution: Just simply delete the unwanted file to retreive a fast loading time. This is valid for all distributions.
  - Open a console as root
  - Go to the directory /etc/xdg/autostart
  - Check that you have two files "pulseaudio.desktop" and "pulseaudio-kde.desktop" in this directory.
  - Delete the file "pulseaudio.desktop" (or rename it to "pulseaudio.desktop.disable" if you prefer to keep it)
  - Reboot normally there shouldn't be more delay now caused by PulseAudio to logon

  
  [1]  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312560

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: pulseaudio 1:4.0-0ubuntu10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.39-lowlatency 3.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-lowlatency i686
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  sgh        2336 F.... pulseaudio
                        sgh        2796 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  sgh        2336 F.... pulseaudio
                        sgh        2796 F.... pulseaudio
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Sun Mar 23 22:22:58 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-24 (89 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20131224)
  SourcePackage: pulseaudio
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/02/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: G7ET31WW (1.13 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 2356GCG
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Defined
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG7ET31WW(1.13):bd07/02/2012:svnLENOVO:pn2356GCG:pvrThinkPadT430s:rvnLENOVO:rn2356GCG:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 2356GCG
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T430s
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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