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arnuld

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Registered: 2005-12-19

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Midnight-Commander takes too long to start

Whenever I start midnight-commander, it takes too long to start.  whenever I give command "mc" on terminal (whether X-terminal or console) it opens up after 30 seconds, till 30 seconds I can see the cursor waiting. I have removed the configuration files but no luck. Check out the attached screenshot, that is how it looks like for 30 seconds after I enter command "mc"

Thanks

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Moderator edit [ewaller] Changed img tags for oversized image to url tags

Last edited by ewaller (2015-08-11 04:35:28)

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ewaller

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Re: Midnight-Commander takes too long to start

I did not have it installed.  I installed it, ran mc, and it started instantly.  You might check the optional dependencies and see if they are causing you issues

ewaller@turing ~ 1001 %pacman -Qi mc
Name           : mc
Version        : 4.8.14-1
Description    : Midnight Commander is a text based filemanager/shell that emulates Norton Commander
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/
Licenses       : GPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : e2fsprogs  glib2  gpm  libssh2  slang
Optional Deps  : cabextract: ucab extfs
                 cdparanoia: audio extfs [installed]
                 cdrkit: iso9660 extfs
                 gawk: hp48+ extfs [installed]
                 aspell: spelling corrections [installed]
                 cvs: CVS support
                 mtools: a+ extfs
                 perl: needed by several extfs scripts [installed]
                 python2-boto: s3+ extfs
                 python2-pytz: s3+ extfs
                 smb: VFS support
                 unace: uace extfs
                 unarj: uarj extfs
                 unrar: urar extfs
                 zip: uzip extfs
                 p7zip: support for 7zip archives
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size :   6.69 MiB
Packager       : Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Wed 25 Mar 2015 02:15:42 PM PDT
Install Date   : Mon 10 Aug 2015 09:32:26 PM PDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature

ewaller@turing ~ 1002 %

Last edited by ewaller (2015-08-11 04:38:41)

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arnuld

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From: INDIA

Registered: 2005-12-19

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Re: Midnight-Commander takes too long to start

I did not have it installed.  I installed it, ran mc, and it started instantly.  You might check the optional dependencies and see if they are causing you issues

I get the *exactly* the same output with that command

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ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,634

Re: Midnight-Commander takes too long to start

You could run

strace mc

and see if it blocks at some system call.

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