absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Michael Vanier]

Hi,

I'm running emacs 21.2.1 from a Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  When I
start it up, I see this in the minibuffer:

Loading 40mule-ucs (source)...

and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
life.  This only started after I upgraded emacs recently (I don't know the
details since it was part of an automatic Debian update).  Any ideas what's
causing this and what can be done about it?

Thanks,

Mike

Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:24:30 -0700
> 
> I'm running emacs 21.2.1 from a Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  When I
> start it up, I see this in the minibuffer:
> 
> Loading 40mule-ucs (source)...
> 
> and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
> life.

It's hard to say what is the problem without knowing what is
40mule-ucs.

I suggest to send this report to the appropriate Debian bug-reporting
address.

Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Henrik Enberg]

mvanier@cs.caltech.edu (Michael Vanier) writes:

> and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
> life.  This only started after I upgraded emacs recently (I don't know the
> details since it was part of an automatic Debian update).  Any ideas what's
> causing this and what can be done about it?

Is there a line complainging about a missing /etc/mailname in the
*Messages* buffer after Emacs has been started?  A debianized Emacs
hangs for a long time when that file is missing.

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Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Andreas Schwab]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

|> > From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
|> > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:24:30 -0700
|> > 
|> > I'm running emacs 21.2.1 from a Debian GNU/Linux distribution.  When I
|> > start it up, I see this in the minibuffer:
|> > 
|> > Loading 40mule-ucs (source)...
|> > 
|> > and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
|> > life.
|> 
|> It's hard to say what is the problem without knowing what is
|> 40mule-ucs.

It's probably the same problem with excessive consing in Mule-UCS that I
have reported some time ago.  I tried to debug that, but I got lost in the
twisted maze of consing.

Andreas.

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Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

henrik+news@enberg.org (Henrik Enberg) writes:

> mvanier@cs.caltech.edu (Michael Vanier) writes:
> 
> > and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
[cut]
> 
> Is there a line complainging about a missing /etc/mailname in the
> *Messages* buffer after Emacs has been started?  A debianized Emacs
> hangs for a long time when that file is missing.

No, this is a different problem - if you don't need mule-ucs, just 
apt-get remove that package. The /etc/mailname thing results in a 
(sit-for 3) call - it'll only cause a 3 second delay (although it's 
still annoying).

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A: Because it was on the other side. 

Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Jason Rumney]

schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab) writes:

> It's probably the same problem with excessive consing in Mule-UCS that I
> have reported some time ago.  I tried to debug that, but I got lost in the
> twisted maze of consing.

Dave Love posted a fix to gnu.emacs.sources a week or two ago.

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Jason Rumney