From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:37:39 +0200 Organization: Le Petomane Appreciation Society Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1qg6cnw.fsf@enberg.org> References: <200204120424.g3C4OUJ09551@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018633157 19605 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2002 17:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:39:17 +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 16w512-00055y-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:39:16 +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 16w513-0006zD-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from chx400.switch.ch ([130.59.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w50L-0006y1-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:38:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16w50K-0002RL-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:38:32 +0200 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:38:32 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:38:31 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: h45n2fls32o1112.telia.COM!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 13 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: h45n2fls32o1112.telia.com (213.65.65.45) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018633110 945204 213.65.65.45 (16 [125297]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:itLAF2FvsN4T167iYc5Cp91NojM= 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:611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:611 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. -- I acted to show my love for Jodie Foster.