I think I have this, too, once in a while. Maybe strace helps to see what happens, I have not tried yet. -- Alexander Kriegisch
Alfons Muhackl: > this surely is a wierd problem. As of today, mc takes 30 seconds to > start. It worked OK yesterday. > I am using debian etch. I installed no updates or so. > Version is 4.6.1-6 > > Now for the funny part: top does not show anything interesting, > dmesg logs no errors, kernlog also nothing. > smartctl says the HD is fine... > > Once mc runs, it is running fine. > > even if mc is running in another console, it takes 30s to start another > instance. > > Does anybody have an idea how to track this down?? _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc