Re: mc starts after 60 second delay (fwd)

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:30:16 +0300
> From: Lindy Mayfield
> To: Pavel Tsekov
> Subject: Re: mc starts after 60 second delay
>
> Yes, as a matter of fact I've recently installed samba.
>
> why?  What are you thinking?
>
> This is Ubuntu but on another system I have Centos4.1 where I've also
> installed samba and mc works fine there.
>
> what about samba could be doing this?  how could I test it?  shut down samba?

MC has support for samba. If samba support is enabled, MC will
read the global samba configuration file at startup. Unfortunately
the samba code that MC uses is a bit outdated and doesn't know of
certain changes made to the directives in the samba configuration
file. The "interfaces" directive is the one that we are interested
in - now it allows network interface names  (like eth0, wlan0, etc),
but it didn't in the past. Not  knowing this the samba code in MC
tries to resolve the interface name as if it was a host name.

Now, if you computer is not connected to the internet and
the "interfaces" directive in your configuration file does
contain a network interface name then MC will hang. To
workaround the hang you could comment out the directive,
or change its value so that it will contain an ip/mask
pair(s).

I hope that helps.

> On 9/14/06, Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running Ubuntu Linux:
> > >
> > > Linux lian 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC 2006 i686
> > GNU/Linux
> > > And mc was working fine and one day it just stopped.  I'm quite sure
> > > it is something I did, but as of yet I haven't found the problem.
> >
> > Do you have samba installed ? Have you played with the samba configuration
> > files recently ?
>
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