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Is there any way to prevent mc from taking 10-30 seconds to open? Never seen this with Debian.

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Did you compile it with --enable-vfs-smb? Try disabling the feature. Seems to be a common problem with version 4.8.4: mc starting up very SLOW – Marco Dec 3 '12 at 12:25
Run strace -r -tt -o mc.strace mc to see where it's taking time. Upload the trace file if you need help interpreting it. Note that the trace file may contain private information (at least file names), take a look at it and sanitize it if necessary before uploading. – Gilles Dec 3 '12 at 21:38

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Try to delete line "search whatever.something" from /etc/resolv.conf

/etc/hosts should have the lines:

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.2 hostname.domain hostname

"hostname" is your hostname and "domain" is your domain.

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That makes some sense only if the machine is never connected to the 'net. That file is filled in by DHCP (or when the Internet connection is configured). – vonbrand Jan 26 at 3:38

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