Re: absurdly long startup time for emacs 21.2.1

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

henrik+news@enberg.org (Henrik Enberg) writes:

> mvanier@cs.caltech.edu (Michael Vanier) writes:
> 
> > and the program hangs for about 30 seconds, until it finally comes back to
[cut]
> 
> Is there a line complainging about a missing /etc/mailname in the
> *Messages* buffer after Emacs has been started?  A debianized Emacs
> hangs for a long time when that file is missing.

No, this is a different problem - if you don't need mule-ucs, just 
apt-get remove that package. The /etc/mailname thing results in a 
(sit-for 3) call - it'll only cause a 3 second delay (although it's 
still annoying).

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