Re: mc-4.8.14 hangs on select for 10 seconds at startup

[Egmont Koblinger <egmont gmail com>]

The upstream ticket for this issue (caused by the semicolon at the end
of PROMPT_COMMAND) is at:
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3534

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Mooffie <mooffie gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/1/15, Mike Smithson <mdooligan gmail com> wrote:
> > On startup it hangs for 10 seconds, apparently on a select() call.
> > I've edited this strace dump for brevity:
> > ...
> > 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]...
>
>
> Two people report the same (or similar) problem here:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131530
>
> See the last three comments there: try clearing the PROMPT_COMMAND env
> variable, or disabling your keybindings in .inputrc (such bindings can
> also be in your shell's startup file(s) in the form of "bind"
> command(s)).
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