Midnight-Commander takes long time to start

arnuld · 2014-10-17 05:27:56

Hi All,

I am using MC (Midnight-Commander) file manager from long time. It was working great but few weeks back it started taking long time to start up. May be some Arch Linux update. I have deleted its configuration and cache files from ~/.cache and ~/.config/mc , removed the package using pacman and reinstalled it but problem still persists. Anyone got idea ho to resolve it ?

x33a · 2014-10-17 06:42:19

Try with a new user to rule out a system level problem.

olive · 2014-10-17 07:48:22

Just a guess, is your /etc/hosts configured correctly? You must be able to ping localhost and your hostname (weather you are connected or not). Emacs has (or used to have, I have not checked the latest version) this problem: failure to access localhost cause it to start with a delay.

berbae · 2014-10-17 08:11:49

arnuld wrote:

it started taking long time to start up

I use MC too and I can't confirm this here: it starts as quickly as always on my up to date installation.

arnuld · 2014-10-18 12:13:41

@x33a: I created a new user and it also has same problem. Evev root login has same issue. Hence, it is system-wide
@olive: Yeah, I can ping localhost fine.

[arnuld@arch64 sda5]$ ping -c 5 localhost
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.041 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.053 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.051 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms

--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.041/0.049/0.054/0.009 ms

[arnuld@arch64 sda5]$  cat /etc/hosts
#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname>
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
::1		localhost.localdomain	localhost

# End of file

Last edited by arnuld (2014-10-18 12:24:36)

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#1 2014-10-17 05:27:56

Midnight-Commander takes long time to start

#2 2014-10-17 06:42:19

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#3 2014-10-17 07:48:22

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#4 2014-10-17 08:11:49

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