Re: XEmacs has slow startup

[Kristopher Johnson <nosleep@bellsouth.net>]

Francois GELIS wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> 
> > XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
> > be using CPU or doing disk access--it just "pauses" for a few seconds
> > while starting.
> >

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> 
> As far as I remember, this issue has already been raised on this list. If
> you create a file named /tmp/.sockets/audio0 (mkdir /tmp/.sockets; touch
> /tmp/.sockets/audio0), Xemacs startup will be faster, because it won't
> hang looking for a file that doesn't exist. I tried that trick, and it
> improved noticeably the startup time.
> 
> Francois
> 
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> Francois Gelis / LAPTH / gelis@lapp.in2p3.fr
> phone:(+33) 4 50 09 16 80 / fax:(+33) 4 50 27 94 95

Thanks, to you and everyone else who answered. It turns out that there
is already a bug report for this (I had assumed it was a problem with my
configuration--not a bug). XEmacs is trying to access the Network Audio
System. The workaround is to create the /tmp/.sockets/audio0 file, as
several people suggested, or to install the 'nas' package.

Thanks,
Kris