Re: emacs causing automount error

[W . Greenhouse]

Patrick <patrick.brem87@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am using emacs on several machines, and now my system administrator
> told me that on one machine his log files are filled up with this
>
> Feb 10 14:38:46 xx automount[3394]: key ".bzr" not found in map source(s).
> Feb 10 14:38:46 xx automount[3394]: key ".git" not found in map source(s).
> Feb 10 14:38:46 xx automount[3394]: key ".hg" not found in map source(s).
> Feb 10 14:38:46 xx automount[3394]: key "_MTN" not found in map source(s).
> Feb 10 14:38:46 xx automount[3394]: key "{arch}" not found in map source(s).
>
> Comparing the timestamps, this happens everytime I start emacs. Is
> anyone familiar with this problem or can point me to where I can stop
> emacs from trying to access all these inexisting keys on startup?

This looks like evidence of vc-mode trying to check if the current
directory is under version control.  The nuclear option would be to
(setq vc-handled-backends nil), thus entirely disabling all attempts to
tell if any file/directory is under version control.