Re: CVS Emacs on Windows XP takes 60 seconds to start

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Francis Litterio wrote:
> CVS Emacs built and running on Windows XP seems to perform some network
> operations that cause a ~60 second pause after the initial window is
> drawn and before the Welcome screen appears.  If I disconnect my network
> cable, it starts up quickly (which makes me suspect that it is blocked
> on a network access).
> 
> I've used SysInternals Process Explorer to get a stack trace of the
> thread that seems to be hanging.  It is attached as a PNG image (because
> Process Explorer won't let me copy-and-paste from the stack trace
> window).  The stack trace shows a call to LsaLookupSids() on the stack,
> which might be taking some time since my computer is on a domain.  I've
> taken a stack trace at several different times during the hang, and
> LsaLookupSids() is always on the stack.
> 
> If it copy the install directory to a Windows XP machine that is not on
> a domain, Emacs starts without any pause.
> 
> Let me know if there's anything additional information I can provide.


Thanks. Is this when you start with default emacs?

  emacs -Q