Re: mc start just shows black screen through putty

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl lowlevel cz>]

mc has many options you may try, e.g. -a, -b, -s...

What you should definitely try is
strace mc
to find out where it is stuck.

To my experience, this may be related to DNS, NFS ... For 
whatever reason mc tries to resolve something (maybe localhost) at start 
and may get stuck there for a long time. Compare the env from putty and 
shell too..



On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Chris wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a long-time enthusiastic user of mc, using it on a number of virtual and 
> bare metal machines. For one particular new machine with a fresh install of 
> Ubuntu 18.04, I have now come across a strange issue:
>
> When I open a console on the machine, I can start mc. However, via putty, 
> starting mc just brings up a black screen with the standard upper right 
> corner (one character) in the upper right and the "Hint: Want your plain 
> shell? Press C-o, and get back to MC with C-o again." text at the bottom. 
> That putty window is totally unresponsive.
>
> I am using the same putty configuration that I am using with dozens of other 
> machines (incl. Ubuntu 18.04) and that works just fine there. I have tried 
> deleting ~/.config/mc, and I have also tried upgrading from the stock MC 
> version provided by Ubuntu 18.04 to the newest release version. No change.
>
> I also tried using the Bitvise SSH client and the ssh client built into 
> Windows 10 instead of putty, but am running into the same problem. mc does 
> show, however, in termius on iOS.
>
> If anybody has a hint on what I might try to get MC running from remote on 
> that particular machine, that would be great!
>
> Thanks, Chris
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