Very slow to startup as Cura tries to create lots of serial connections

[StormTrooper]

Cura Version

5.7.1

Operating System

Ubuntu 24.04

Printer

Ender 3 Pro

Reproduction steps

After running Cura if you open any STL file it takes around 80 seconds for a simple file to load. Opening any other file after that (even the same file) and it's instant. This only occurs on the first load of a file.

I've also only noticed this issue after upgrading from Ubuntu 23.04 to 24.04

Actual results

STL file take 80 seconds to load.

Expected results

Should load immediately.

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Not sure if the below errors are related. The warning occurs after I load the STL and before it's displayed.

Gtk-Message: 23:33:29.870: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: 23:33:29.874: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" qt.qml.typeresolution.cycle: Cyclic dependency detected between "file:///tmp/.mount_UltiMaug3H2h/share/cura/resources/qml/Actions.qml" and "file:///tmp/.mount_UltiMaug3H2h/share/cura/resources/qml/Actions.qml"

** (UltiMaker-Cura:68839): WARNING **: 23:33:56.193: atk-bridge: get_device_events_reply: unknown signature Opening in existing browser session.

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[didli]

Could you try to rename the 'plugins' folder in your /home/$USER/.local/share/cura/5.x/ and restart Cura to try again ? I had the same problem (loading a .stl took around 93 sec) with Fedora 39 and since Cura 5.7. EDIT : false positive. I've tried again with cura 5.7.1 and it didn't work. Still loading stl files very slowly.

• From my log, Cura seems to try very hard to detect the baudrate to my printer (which is not even connected to the machine running cura) :

cura.log

[StormTrooper]

Tried renaming the plugins folder, and also tried renaming 5.7 folder. No effect from either.

Had a look at the cura.log and seeing the same thing as you. Tries for a number of seconds to connect to the printer via serial port.

cura.log

Update: It's got nothing to do with the loading of the STL file. If I run cura and just leave it for a minute (while it tries to create all the serial connections) and then load the file it loads instantly.

So it's got to do with all the serial connections it tries to do when starting up.

[StormTrooper]

Duplicate of https://github.com/Ultimaker/Cura/issues/18882

Disabling USB Printing fixes the issue.

[didli]

Thank you StormTrooper for the duplicate reference. Strange that it only occured for me beginning with 5.7 version.
Anyway, for the people with the same problem, click on the marketplace button and see below :

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[frostworx]

Thanks @StormTrooper for the hint!

and thank you so much for the detailed instructions @didli I barely use cura and would not have found the settings otherwise

I can confirm this fixes the issue with loading stls for me as well.

[bmv234]

After upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04, I am having the same issue. Disabling USB Printing fixed it for me as well.

[CrashTD]

Can confirm the same on Arch Linux. Disabling USB Printing helps, but this is of course no permantent solution. Can't print if Cura can't talk to the printer..

So i tried the "USB Printing NG" plugin from the marketplace as replacement and that seems to be indeed fixing my problem. You however need to set CURA_BAUDRATE and maybe CURA_COMPORTS environment variable.

In my case it was enough to start cura like this: CURA_BAUDRATE=250000 cura

You need of course to set the baudrate fitting for your specific printer.