id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 4044 mc halts during start-up when there's no internet connection szotsaki "If you have a bad, non-working but active, or non-existent internet connection, mc halts during startup for several seconds (sometimes minutes). With strace I could get the following when the halt happens: {{{ futex(0x7fcccbd49324, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 openat(AT_FDCWD, ""/etc/resolv.conf"", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=688, ...}) = 0 read(3, ""### /etc/resolv.conf is a symlin""..., 4096) = 688 read(3, """", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 3 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path=""/var/run/nscd/socket""}, 110) = 0 sendto(3, ""\2\0\0\0\r\0\0\0\6\0\0\0hosts\0"", 18, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 18 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 5000) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN|POLLHUP}]) recvmsg(3, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_iov=[{iov_base=""hosts\0"", iov_len=6}, {iov_base=""\310O\3\0\0\0\0\0"", iov_len=8}], msg_iovlen=2, msg_control=[{cmsg_len=20, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_RIGHTS, cmsg_data=[4]}], msg_controllen=20, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC}, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 14 mmap(NULL, 217032, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0) = 0x7fcccaf32000 close(4) = 0 close(3) = 0 socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 3 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path=""/var/run/nscd/socket""}, 110) = 0 sendto(3, ""\2\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\r\0\0\0linux-laptop\0"", 25, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 25 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 5000 }}} The same trace is reproducible. {{{ GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.23 Built with GLib 2.62.2 Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database With builtin Editor With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm and Linux console With support for X11 events With internationalization support With multiple codepages support Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, smbfs Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64; }}} " defect closed major mc-vfs 4.8.23 duplicate no branch