Re: [Bug: 21.4.14] XEmacs hangs when doing networking

Glynn> I wouldn't be so sure, particularly what happens after Glynn> XEmacs calls gethostbyname or getaddrinfo is likely to be Glynn> highly system-specific (i.e. it depends upon what's in Glynn> nsswitch.conf, whether you're running nscd etc). Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. If you're running recent Red Hat, nscd is broken; starting it implicitly via one of the get* calls invariably wedges it. The solution is to run it by hand as root (I think you can do this with a startup script). This breakage is not reproducible on non-Red Hat systems. It could be that Jan doesn't use very many apps which operate offline, and that's why the symptom only shows up with XEmacs. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.