mc-4.8.14 hangs on select for 10 seconds at startup

Egmont Koblinger egmont at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 19:46:36 UTC 2015


The upstream ticket for this issue (caused by the semicolon at the end
of PROMPT_COMMAND) is at:
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3534

e.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Mooffie <mooffie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/15, Mike Smithson <mdooligan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On startup it hangs for 10 seconds, apparently on a select() call.
>> I've edited this strace dump for brevity:
>> ...
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "-S", 128)             = 2
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971293}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
>> 971287})
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "TO", 128)             = 2
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971287}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
>> 971281})
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "P ", 128)             = 2
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971281}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
>> 971275})
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "$$", 128)             = 2
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971275}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
>> 971269})
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "'\r\n", 128)          = 3
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971269}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
>> 970702})
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "bash: PROMPT_COMMAND: line 1: sy"..., 128) = 128
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 970702}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,
>> 970700})
>> 04:20:19 read(6, "STOP $$'\r\n[miven at cobra ~]$ ", 128) = 27
>> 04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 970700}) = 0 (Timeout)
>> ...[10 seconds of nothing]...
>
>
> Two people report the same (or similar) problem here:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131530
>
> See the last three comments there: try clearing the PROMPT_COMMAND env
> variable, or disabling your keybindings in .inputrc (such bindings can
> also be in your shell's startup file(s) in the form of "bind"
> command(s)).
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