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@xxxxxxxxx> > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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