[aclug-L] Re: emacs problem

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Common culprits of this can include mis-configured sendmail or DNS.
You might note that people sometimes have problems with sendmail
hanging for several minutes at boot if DNS is messed up.  The same can 
happen to emacs.  If the servers in /etc/resolv.conf are unreachable
or your /etc/hosts is incorrect, this could occur.

Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> process is to kill it. An interesting thing is that exact same thing
> happens with GNU emacs. It isn't just xemacs. Everything else is
> working fine as best I can tell.  My first thought is that something
> has changed with permissions someplace, but nothing seems out of the
> ordinary and I don't get any error messages.  I have rebooted. I have
> looked for lock files and temporary files. I don't believe that xemacs
> was exited abnormally last time I used it. The machine did not reboot
> abnormally or anything like that.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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