Hello

I have a strange problem with mc (MidnightCommander).
After install OpenBSD 4.2 mc doesn't work properly.
When i type:

mc

I have to wait 5 min to see the Midnight Commander. After comannd it
hangs and it's ready to work after 5 minutes.
It doesnt matter I use bsd or bsd.mp kernel. It doesn't matter which
terminal I use.
I tried to instal mc using ports but it won't help. There is no
problem with other software.

Thanks for any help

Regards,
Bambero

[[ This probably should have been reported to ports@ rather than  
misc@ ]]

Bambero, I'm an 'mc' fanatic running it under 4.2. There is no problem
for me.

My "wild analytical guess" about your problem is this:

One of the two panes of the mc display is logged into some remote
device or file system -- nfs, ftp, unmounted disk, etc. Something.
And that file system is not active so mc tries after each command
until it times out.

Was that a good guess?

-- 
Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
jwoehr@absolute-performance.com
303-443-7000 ext. 527

Hmm the problem is not so simple i have second machine with OpenBSD
4.2 and everything works fine.
Secondly when i chroot to this instalation under OpenBSD 4.0 it works
without any problems.
Maybe something with my hardware, but under OpenBSD 4.0 it works fine

Very doubtful that this is hardware. Very doubtful it is OBSD 4.2. It's
most likely something about your mc setup.

Can you post your ~/.mc/ini file, or at least the following keys?:

clear_before_exec=
fast_reload=
fast_reload_msg_shown=
confirm_execute=
dive_into_subdirs=
vfs_timeout=
vfs_use_targz_memlimit=
ftpfs_directory_timeout=
use_netrc=
ftpfs_retry_seconds=
ftpfs_always_use_proxy=
ftpfs_use_passive_connections=
other_dir=
current_is_left=

-- 
Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
jwoehr@absolute-performance.com
303-443-7000 ext. 527

All my .mc/ini
It's default I made no changes here

[Midnight-Commander]
show_backups=1
show_dot_files=1
verbose=1
mark_moves_down=1
pause_after_run=1
shell_patterns=1
auto_save_setup=1
auto_menu=0
use_internal_view=1
use_internal_edit=1
clear_before_exec=1
mix_all_files=0
fast_reload=0
fast_reload_msg_shown=0
confirm_delete=1
confirm_overwrite=1
confirm_execute=0
confirm_exit=1
safe_delete=0
mouse_repeat_rate=100
double_click_speed=250
use_8th_bit_as_meta=0
confirm_view_dir=0
mouse_move_pages=1
mouse_move_pages_viewer=1
fast_refresh=0
navigate_with_arrows=0
drop_menus=0
wrap_mode=1
old_esc_mode=0
cd_symlinks=1
show_all_if_ambiguous=0
have_fast_cpu=0
max_dirt_limit=10
torben_fj_mode=0
use_file_to_guess_type=1
alternate_plus_minus=0
only_leading_plus_minus=1
show_output_starts_shell=0
panel_scroll_pages=1
xtree_mode=0
num_history_items_recorded=60
file_op_compute_totals=1
vfs_timeout=60
ftpfs_directory_timeout=900
use_netrc=1
ftpfs_retry_seconds=30
ftpfs_always_use_proxy=0
ftpfs_use_passive_connections=1
ftpfs_use_unix_list_options=1
ftpfs_first_cd_then_ls=0
editor_word_wrap_line_length=72
editor_key_emulation=0
editor_tab_spacing=8
editor_fill_tabs_with_spaces=0
editor_return_does_auto_indent=0
editor_backspace_through_tabs=0
editor_fake_half_tabs=1
editor_option_save_mode=0
editor_option_save_position=1
editor_option_backup_ext_int=-1
editor_option_auto_para_formatting=0
editor_option_typewriter_wrap=0
editor_edit_confirm_save=1
editor_syntax_highlighting=1
nice_rotating_dash=1
horizontal_split=0

[Layout]
equal_split=1
first_panel_size=43
message_visible=1
keybar_visible=1
xterm_title=1
output_lines=0
command_prompt=1
menubar_visible=1
show_mini_info=1
permission_mode=0
filetype_mode=1

[Dirs]
other_dir=/root
current_is_left=1

[New Left Panel]
display=listing
reverse=0
case_sensitive=1
sort_order=name
list_mode=full
user_format=half type name | size | perm
user_status0=half type name | size | perm
user_status1=ha...
[ message continues ]

Does this directory exist? Is it local? If you are chrooted, does it  
exist in your
chroot layout?

-- 
Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
jwoehr@absolute-performance.com
303-443-7000 ext. 527

Hmm, I found the answer:

lookup file bind

in /etc/resolv.conf solves the problem.

ping localhost won't works too becouse of bad dns configuration.

Thanks

You built mc from source? used a binary package? stale package from before
the upgrade?

This feels like a dns resolution issue, maybe a missing entry in /etc/hosts

if you just did an upgrade, maybe you blew away your hosts or resolv.conf ?

I don't use mc, but doesn't it do some sort of ftp or remote file
transfer, and may like to know its' hostname/address? Does it maybe
take long to ping $(hostname)?

you can use ktrace(1) to examine what mc is busy waiting for from
the system, if thats the case.

Exactly, it was dns. Naow everything works perfectly.

Thanks

Yes I have to do some tests