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> From: Jason Dunsmore <jason.public@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:14:49 GMT
> 
> why does emacs stall (for ~1 min) upon startup when the network is
> down and how can it be prevented?

Does that happen if you invoke Emacs with "emacs -q"?

Also see the entry in PROBLEMS about slow startup due to network
problems (search for "FQDN").