mc-4.8.14 hangs on select for 10 seconds at startup

["Mike Smithson" <mdooligan gmail com>]

I'm working over a Mandriva 2011 distro to get it working just the
way I like it. It came with mc-4.7.53, and it works. I decided to
compile 4.8.14 on the PC, pretty standard stuff:

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.14
Built with GLib 2.16.6
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
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64;

On startup it hangs for 10 seconds, apparently on a select() call.
I've edited this strace dump for brevity:

[code]
...
04:20:19 open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR)      = 6
04:20:19 statfs("/dev/pts", {f_type="DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096,  
f_blocks=0, f_bfree=0, f_bavail=0, f_files=0, f_ffree=0, f_fsid={0, 0},  
f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or  
TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, TIOCGPTN, [3])        = 0
04:20:19 stat64("/dev/pts/3", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136,  
3), ...}) = 0
04:20:19 getuid32()                     = 501
04:20:19 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 7
04:20:19 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110)  
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or  
directory)                                                                                       
04:20:19 close(7)                       = 0
04:20:19 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 7
04:20:19 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110)  
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
04:20:19 close(7)                       = 0
04:20:19 open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 7
04:20:19 fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=669, ...}) = 0
04:20:19 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,  
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7189000
04:20:19 read(7, "root:x:0:\nbin:x:1:\ndaemon:x:2:\ns"..., 4096) = 669
04:20:19 close(7)                       = 0
04:20:19 munmap(0xb7189000, 4096)       = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, TIOCSPTLCK, [0])      = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or  
TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
04:20:19 ioctl(6, TIOCGPTN, [3])        = 0
04:20:19 stat64("/dev/pts/3", {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136,  
3), ...}) = 0
04:20:19 open("/dev/pts/3", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 7
04:20:19 fcntl64(7, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
04:20:19 pipe([8, 9])                   = 0
04:20:19 clone(child_stack=0,  
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,  
child_tidptr=0xb74f7728) = 12097
04:20:19 write(6, " PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND"..., 75) = 75
04:20:19 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8096d10, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {10, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
998268})
04:20:19 read(6, " PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND"..., 128) = 76
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 998268}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971360})
04:20:19 read(6, "[miven cobra ~]$  PROMPT_COMMAND"..., 128) = 55
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971360}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971353})
04:20:19 read(6, "MPT_", 128)           = 4
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971353}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971347})
04:20:19 read(6, "COM", 128)            = 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971347}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971341})
04:20:19 read(6, "MAN", 128)            = 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971341}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971335})
04:20:19 read(6, "D;", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971335}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971329})
04:20:19 read(6, " }'", 128)            = 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971329}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971323})
04:20:19 read(6, "pw", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971323}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971317})
04:20:19 read(6, "d>&", 128)            = 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971317}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971311})
04:20:19 read(6, "9;", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971311}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971305})
04:20:19 read(6, "kil", 128)            = 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971305}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971299})
04:20:19 read(6, "l ", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971299}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971293})
04:20:19 read(6, "-S", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971293}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971287})
04:20:19 read(6, "TO", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971287}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971281})
04:20:19 read(6, "P ", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971281}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971275})
04:20:19 read(6, "$$", 128)             = 2
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971275}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
971269})
04:20:19 read(6, "'\r\n", 128)          = 3
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 971269}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
970702})
04:20:19 read(6, "bash: PROMPT_COMMAND: line 1: sy"..., 128) = 128
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 970702}) = 1 (in [6], left {9,  
970700})
04:20:19 read(6, "STOP $$'\r\n[miven cobra ~]$ ", 128) = 27
04:20:19 select(9, [6 8], NULL, NULL, {9, 970700}) = 0 (Timeout)
...[10 seconds of nothing]...
04:20:29 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
04:20:29 kill(12096, SIGCONT)           = 0
04:20:29 write(4, "3", 1)               = 1
04:20:29 read(5, "\3", 1)               = 1
04:20:29 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0660, st_rdev=makedev(4, 3), ...}) = 0
04:20:29 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or  
TCGETS, {B38400 -opost isig -icanon -echo ...}) = 0
04:20:29 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,  
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7189000
04:20:29 write(1, "\33[?2004h", 8)      = 8
04:20:29 geteuid32()                    = 501
04:20:29 access("/home/miven/.config/mc/filehighlight.ini", R_OK) = 0
04:20:29 access("/home/miven/.config/mc/filehighlight.ini", R_OK) = 0
04:20:29 stat64("/home/miven/.config/mc/filehighlight.ini",  
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1127, ...}) = 0
04:20:29 open("/home/miven/.config/mc/filehighlight.ini",  
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 10
04:20:29 fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1127, ...}) = 0
04:20:29 read(10, "[executable]\n    type=FILE_EXE\n\n"..., 4096) = 1127
04:20:29 read(10, "", 4096)             = 0
04:20:29 close(10)                      = 0
...
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Any notions why it's hanging there for 10 seconds? It does it every time.
I'm having some permissions issues with udev and I'm hoping someone can
point me in the right direction.

I'm not sure if this is related, but the subshell is not working
correctly either. C-O toggles to blank screen, and any single keypress
sends it right back to panels. I'm working from runlevel 3 at this time,
so mc is on /dev/tty[0-12] and the subshell is using /dev/pts/*.

Thanks in advance.



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