Holger
This may be somehow difficult to reproduce but happens consistently with all 
versions of TBC:
My understanding is that TBC tries to cash or somehow validate all .owl files 
in the workspace at the start up.  In most instances the process works fine 
even if it is not connected to the internet and some files have references to 
outbound resources. However, 1) If you have some Database connection files 
rather than .owl files in your workspace, and 2) you are connected to the 
network or internet, but 3) the database is not available (for example if it is 
behind firewall or needs to be accessed using VPN) the TBC will stall.

This problem occurs only if the computer is connected some network, including 
internet but no connection to DB is possible. To address this problem one needs 
to stop the network (disconnect the cable or turn off the wireless connection) 
first, start TBC (which apparently knows that it should not try to connect to 
DB if there is no internet or network connection) and once the BC starts and 
settles, start the internet or network connection. Then TBC works fine again.  
This problem happens with all database types (oracle, allegro and jenadb).

However you want to address the problem, I hope a timeout -even a short one- 
may not be part of the solution, as it would still take a long time to start 
TBC if there are several connection files in the workspace. For example I have 
more than 20 database connections in my workspace and if each of them takes 10 
seconds before they fail it will take more than 3 minutes to time them all 
out). I would be happily satisfied myself if you give-up doing the database 
connections altogether, even if there is a connection, as for example in the 
case of Oracle, it takes a long time to start TBC even if you are not even 
opening the oracle databases.... Normally database files are larger models with 
slower connections and it makes it really frustrating when using TBC with 
database connections...

Thanks
Parsa

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