From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vivek Dasmohapatra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1 Date: 12 Apr 2002 19:03:34 +0100 Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <874rigaj61.fsf@etla.org> References: <200204120424.g3C4OUJ09551@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu> <87u1qg6cnw.fsf@enberg.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018634770 22452 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2002 18:06:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:06:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16w5R3-0005q1-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:06:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w5R3-0008VC-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net ([198.5.241.86]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w5Oc-0008OY-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from news11-gui.server.ntli.net by mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: news11b-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.222.8]) id QQmkhk04223 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:03:37 GMT Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by news11-gui.server.ntli.net (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id TAA24669; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:03:36 +0100 (BST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.2.247.20 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com Original-X-Trace: news11-gui.server.ntli.net 1018634615 80.2.247.20 (Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:03:35 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:03:35 BST Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:614 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). -- Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road? A: Because it was on the other side.