MC hangs with a sertain user

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

> I ahve got 2 users with shell acces to my system; root and diederik.When
> I ogin with root and start using mc there is no problem! But when I
> login as diederik mc sometimes hangs when i try to start it it. But when
> it does start up it always hangs when i pres control o or when i try to
> excecute a file or script.

This bug was fixed in 4.5.55.  As Dmitry.Semyonov at oktet.ru correctly
suggests (but he forgot to cc: you), removing cons.saver could be a
workaround if you really don't want to upgrade mc.

> PS I have got a Redhat 7.2 system with the standard mc installed, the
> user diederik was created during the instalaion proces of redhat.

Redhat is very conservative with respect to mc.  Not only Redhat, but even 
today's Rawhide uses 4.5.51.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin