Carl> Betas 45 and 47 take almost 2 minutes to start on my Carl> machine. I'm running redhat 6.2 x86 with XFree 4.0.3. I Carl> don't get this same behavior on my Solaris 8 machine. Any Carl> help or information would be appreciated. (1) Does this happen starting with -vanilla? (2) Are your Lisp libraries on a network drive? (3) Is the Red Hat box less well-connected to the network than the Solaris box? If the answers are yes, no, yes, then it may be the IPv6 stuff. IPv6 _always_ does a lookup for the CNAME of localhost, and _insists_ on doing it via external name servers (IIRC it is not possible to divert this lookup to a local file). So if (1) your network is configured, (2) you have remote nameservers configured, and (3) you are not connected, XEmacs will block for #NS * DNStimeout. I believe that the timeout in question is 30 seconds.... The Gospel According to the Prophet Martin is that IPv6 readiness is a GoodThang[tm], and you should fix your network configuration. I don't understand the issues, I'm just citing One Who Knows. See PROBLEMS (search IPv6) for further discussion and instructions on how to permanently break the legs of this feature if you want to. If (2) is yes, then your NFS/AFS/Coda/etc may be hosed, but this is less likely. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."

Carl> Read through PROBLEMS and explicitly set my DISPLAY to Carl> localhost:0.0. Starts faster now, but is this the only Carl> solution short of modifying the C and recompiling? The fact that setting display improves startup speed suggests that it is in fact the IPv6 CNAME lookup that is causing the slowdown. This means that you must be timing out on the DNS requests. As PROBLEMS says, if you can arrange that either (1) the DNS connections succeed quickly (they don't need to actually find your host, just return something from the nameserver AFAIK) or (2) you have no nameservers configured at XEmacs startup, you'll be OK. I suspect setting DISPLAY is more attractive, though. I've suggested a command-line flag + configure option solution, but that will probably take some time to implement, and will not be released for a while. See the thread "21.4 hangs in the absence ..." Carl> BTW, upgraded to 21.4.0 now, same behavior. I expected that, the code hasn't changed. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."