On 16 Jun 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I suspect this isn't a problem of application size. He'd have to be > using a 386 with 4MB of memory for emacs to take 5 minutes to > load. More likely it's a problem with emacs trying to get your > hostname using "gethostbyname()" or some such. > > [Eric], make sure that your hostname is defined and make sure there's an > entry in /etc/hosts for that name. If this is a standalone system, or > you only connect to the network via dialup make sure that you have an > entry in /etc/hosts like: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost <hostname>
This was the problem. I'd removed the entry for my machine from /etc/hosts (because the machine is now stand-alone, as it doesn't get a static IP address on the office network and I haven't figure out DHCP yet...) I put the entry back and now emacs comes up in the traditional 5+ seconds. Not bad for something that big! :-) Thanks for the quick and accurate diagnosis! --Eric House +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
