long delay when launching midnight commander

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amires
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long delay when launching midnight commander

Post by amires » 2011/07/13 11:31:14

Hi,

I have installed midnight commander on CentOS 6 64-bit however whenever I need to launch it nothing happens for 30 seconds or so and then the main window open up. Anyone have this issue?

gabrielvlasiu
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Re: long delay when launching midnight commander

Post by gabrielvlasiu » 2011/07/14 11:28:32

Something is wrong with your DNS. Check resolv.conf and/or hosts.

taylorkh
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Re: long delay when launching midnight commander

Post by taylorkh » 2011/07/14 12:42:28

I just installed mc on a VMWare guest and an old Pentium 4 PC - CentOS 6 - 32 bit. It is fast as lightning. In addition to what gabrielvlasiu recommended, check and see if you have any remote resources mounted which are not on-line.

For example, I have 4 nfs exports on my server. If I mount them from the PC and then shut down the server (it is just a LARGE hard drive for backup so I do that frequently) and then I launch Gnome Commander, the program has a fit trying to read from the mount points which it thinks are active but are really dead. Perhaps Midnight Commander is doing something similar at startup.

Ken

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