From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brandon Kuczenski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: After upgrade: timeout when starting emacs Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:59:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135195298 3197 80.91.229.2 (21 Dec 2005 20:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 21 21:01:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpA8J-0000Sf-2a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:00:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpA9G-0007jx-Na for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpA8n-0007hn-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EpA8i-0007fN-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EpA8i-0007ek-0S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:00:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.195.172.207] (helo=301south.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EpAC3-00079S-75 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.15] (plaza.301south.net [192.168.0.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by 301south.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB92FEB1 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:59:41 -0500 (EST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32144 Archived-At: I am running Emacs 21.4.1 on Debian. I recently upgraded from probably 21.3, but I don't know for sure what version I was running previously. With the present version, every time I start emacs, there is a 5-second timeout that occurs when it tries to execute the following command from my .emacs file: (set-default-font "-*-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-iso8859-*") I did not have this delay in the prior version. I tried running emacs from strace, but didn't get any information that was useful [to me]. I suspect it may be trying to contact a font server, of which there isn't one. Would that make sense? Is there a way for me to change its behavior? Thanks, Brandon