Re: emacs starts about 10 seconds to long

[Colin S. Miller]

Christian Herenz wrote:
> Krzysztof Poc schrieb:
>
> > My emacs starts about 10 seconds to long.
> > I suspect it is because my machine is not connected to a network.
> > Below is the strace log.
> > I found that it does a few short (1 second) breaks at each select
> > function invocation.
> > I pressed the ctrl-c after 3rd invocation of select function.
> > My box has got the network disabled globaly.
> > No ethX interfaces, only lo. resolv.conf is empty. All network
> > services are down etc.
> > My emacs version is 22.3.
> >
> > Please help me to get rid of those delays.
> > Great thanks.
>
> Hi, I had the same problem some time ago... I think the source of the 
> problem had to do something with the hostname. If I remember correctly I 
> manually set my hostname to a value which was not consistent with some 
> system file. Maybe someone else knows more....
>
> Greetings Christian

I suspected that as well,
emacs is trying to access port 53, which is the DNS server.

Christian,
Is the "lo" interface on 127.0.0.1 up?
This is the loop-back interface which allows your
machine to talk to itself. It should always be up,
otherwise problems can occur.

What is the contents of /etc/hostname and /etc/resolv.conf ?

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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