Re: 21.4 hangs in the absence of a net connection
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
Probably IPv6. From PROBLEMS:
**** New problem: IPv6 CNAME lookup
I have never configured anything for IPv6, anywhere.
And there are no CNAMEs involved at all.
> Why should XEmacs care at all about network matters during
> startup?
Those Who Know insist that this is a feature, and that you should
fix your network configuration.
Those Who Know are wrong, and my network configuration is actually
quite robust. Modem links drop; this is a fact of life, and trying to
blame other software's (XEmacs') misbehavior on this unavoidable
condition is an incorrect shifting of blame. Every time my link
drops, my interface autodetect scripts set about bringing it back up,
with the result that it is never gone for more than a few minutes; it
was mere happenstance that I noticed XEmacs' startup failure today
just when, by ¿bad? luck, I was starting XEmacs right when the link
had dropped.
--karl