Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mc
On Karmic amd64 box I have my shell set to tcsh (over LDAP due to
network policy here so not easy to change).
running mc causes a long pause (9 seconds) before the panes appear on
the screen.
If I run a bash shell inside my tcsh then I get this behaviour:
if I do 'mkdir test' mc disappears and I am left back at a prompt, without test
having been created.
If I run mc from the plain tcsh then the startup delay is the same but
now commands don't cause mc to exit, but no output from them is produced
until I hit control C.
so mkdir test, jed filename, ls, dpkg -l all hang (having removed the
blue panels) until I hit ctrl C at which point I see the output, or
enter the editor or whatever - ie the command is actually run/allowed to
run at that point.
So clearly mc and tcsh don't really get on. If IT have made this your
default shell (and mc is your normal file manager) that's rather
serious.
Attached is an strace. The long pause happens in this code (lines658-659)
read(5, "set echo_style=both;alias precmd"..., 100) = 94
select(8, [5 7], NULL, NULL, {9, 976915}) = 1 (in [5], left {9, 789551})
read(5, "wooke...@e102475-lin:~$ set echo"..., 100) = 100
select(8, [5 7], NULL, NULL, {9, 789551}) = 1 (in [5], left {9, 789547})
read(5, "1;kill -STOP $$'\r\nbash: alias: p"..., 100) = 100
select(8, [5 7], NULL, NULL, {9, 789547}) = 1 (in [5], left {9, 789543})
read(5, "e.8201;kill -STOP $$: not found\r"..., 100) = 57
select(8, [5 7], NULL, NULL, {9, 789543}) = 0 (Timeout)
Happy to do some more testing if it helps.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 9 18:19:41 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mc 2:4.6.2-2ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/tcsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.60-generic
SourcePackage: mc
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic x86_64
** Affects: mc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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mc crashes when running commands if shell is tcsh
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603695
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