Unusual Midnight Commander behavior (slow start!)

mr2600 · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Florida

I'm unsure how many people reguarly use mc anymore... but I recently (today) reinstalled gentoo on some newer hardware and for the first time mc has given me odd behavior... it takes about 10-15 seconds to start! Usually it comes up instantly but I am unsure what would cause such wierdness.

Anyone experience something similar?

cpunchin · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 37

Same here.... however, this happens when I launch it from a shell console. When I launch it from a shell window (within X) it's fine.

I get a /lib/liblow.c(329) error

mmontz · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 12

Same here, from shell window fast, from console slow.

Emerging without the X flag solved problem.

Regards,
Michael

n00ber · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2004 Posts: 3

This happend to me to.
Strange that it happend to all of us just recently?
We must have upgraded somthing to cause it.

Anyway 'im trying the -X flag trick as we speak

gissberg · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Sweden

gissberg · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Sweden

NVM, figured it out I hope. Added USE="-X" in make.conf
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hds · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

same problem here since today. however, once X has started (kde in my case) it starts up as fast as usual on tty1-6 as well. however, it displays this:

mr2600 · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 54 Location: Florida

Heh, re-emerging without X seems to have fixed it... thanks! I wonder why this was a problem now and not before?

hds · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:07 am Post subject:

MBMarduk · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:51 am Post subject:

BUMP on this one too.... Thanx for the help!!

mhodak · Veteran Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1218

It seems to me that this problem is related to bug in pam (Bug #70585), /etc/security/pam_env.conf sets the DISPLAY variable whether X is running or not. mc gets confused in console, since if DISPLAY is set it usually means that X is running and it is trying to connect to the X session.
Commenting the line that sets DISPLAY in /etc/security/pam_env.conf and relogin shoud help the start time.

kamikaze04 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:22 pm Post subject:

that fixed me too

enrique · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 342 Location: Denmark

This also happens to me, but first after I upgraded to Xorg-x11 6.8.0-r3 from 6.7.0-r1. In a xterm it start instantly, but in the console it takes up to 10 sec to start.
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AndyX · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 9

bump!

any official patch on this issue?
thanks!
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mhodak · Veteran Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1218

Not yet,
unfortunantelly, this issues has not get much of attention from devs. You can monitor progress here:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70585