[arch-general] Slow startup of mc

[Abdul Halim]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On Monday 29 December 2008 06:44:15 am Sergej Pupykin wrote:
>> It is bug-feature I think.
>> As I understand it is dns resolving problem.
>> mc try to resolve local ips. You may put it into /etc/hosts
>>
>> 127.0.0.1            localhost.localdomain    localhost
>> 192.168.1.2        myhostname
>>
>
> This would be better:
>
>  127.0.0.1            localhost.localdomain      localhost
>  127.0.0.2            myhostname.mydomain myhostname
>
> Works in a dhcp environment :)
>
>
>>
>> -------- Original Message  --------
>> Subject: [arch-general] Slow startup of mc
>> From: Abdul Halim <sagikliwon at gmail.com>
>> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
>> Date: Mon Dec 29 2008 14:38:04 GMT+0300 (MSK)
>>
>> > Hi.
>> > I just found out that mc (midnight commander) in extra repository is
>> > buggy in a sense that it will take
>> > around 7 secs or more to start. This happens to me on several machines.
>> > Other distro are reporting this issues too:
>> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24038
>> >
>> > To resolve this issue, I have downloaded mc-mp from community which is
>> > more stable.
>> >
>> > I am suggesting that mc to be removed from the extra repo since it
>> > is an unstable version of mc.
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > archlinuxsagi
>
>
>

Thanks for tip.
Both solutions work.
I guess mc is no longer buggy then. :-)