On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:

> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>>> Hi! It seems that mc is not working.. after launching the mc the cursor
>>> just stops and nothing happens. What can i do do debug whats going on?
>>> Thank you!
>>> Adrian
>>
>> There is always strace
>>   strace -o /tmp/mc.strace mc
>>
>> You can then look at the strace file (/tmp/mc.strace) and see what it's
>> stuck on.
>>
>> Troy
> Thanks for the tip ... in fact is something strange : i forgot about mc
> and after ~45 seconds it appeared on the screen.

Did you have your HOME in NFS/AFS?
Looks like, mc is wait for some network FS. I have something like that
when mc start from NFS on SL45.

> In trace file i see a lots of
> time(NULL)                              = 1198533795
> stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2195, ...}) = 0
> I run an strace -c but total seconds is 0.002628 which is very strange
> as i count 45 second from command to GUI drawing.
> this is from strace -c
> % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 86.68    0.002278         456         5           statfs64
> ...
> ...
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 100.00    0.002628                  1605       169 total
>
>
> also an strace -cf
> % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 91.57    0.054312         936        58        26 waitpid
> ...
> ...
> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
> 100.00    0.059310                  6280       921 total
>
> What can i do more?
> Thanks for your help!!
>
> and not related :
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession: line 15: unask: command not found

Ohhh! should be "umask", bug in TUV distro? but it is not related to mc.
sed -i -e 's|unask 077|umask 077|' /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession
to get rid of "unask: command not found"

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Best regards,
  Valery Mitsyn