Entering command mc for the first time comes message: " Failed to run: Your old settings were migrated from /root/.mc to Freedesktop recommended dirs. To get more info, please visit http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html " Next times trying to start mc nothing happens. ps says: "root 20569 19608 0 22:16 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/bin/mc -P /tmp/mc-root/mc.pwd.19608" Behavior is the same vor root and "normal" users. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open konsole 2.Issue command 'mc' Actual Results: konsole hangs. No prompt. Expected Results: mc comes up. Happens sice upgrading from openSuse 12.1(KDE4.9) to 12.3(kde 4.10)
mc starts only after a minute or so.
Does mc start OK in xterm or another terminal?
Good idea! :-) Same problem on _every_ console now; xterm and "native". So, seems not to be a kde-problem, but something that brought in the openSuse-update in general.
OK thanks for checking - check your distro's site
Thanks K.v.H.! For completeness: Found this discussion: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3410363.html command 'strace mc' brought to light, that mc during startup waited for a lot of poll() requests. So I found out that there was a hostname mismatch (command 'hostname' was different from what was in /etc/hosts). After manual editing /etc/hosts now mc starts up lightning fast. :-) Please could someone mark this bug report as IRRELEVANT or something like that