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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!btnet-feed2!bmdhh222.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!nrchh52.rich.nt.com!crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!news From: Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: What is emacs waiting for? Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 14:01:01 -0500 Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3393186D.7DC8@nospam.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cgrwh163.rich.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42053 I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my PC, and did a pkg_add to install emacs-19.34b. When I run emacs, instead of coming right up, it pauses for a long time (over a minute I think, but I haven't timed it). During this time, I can tell (by looking at the LEDs on the UTP hub which this PC is attached to) that some small message is being sent on the network every few seconds, but nothing is responding. I've never seen emacs wait for something on the network before coming up. Does anyone know what this is all about, and how I go about fixing it so that it behaves normally? I certainly don't want to have to twiddle my thumbs for a minute every time I want to edit a file.