Hang on startup

Jostein Berntsen jbernts at broadpark.no
Mon Oct 15 19:08:45 UTC 2018


On 15.10.18,14:56, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been experiencing this for a while and I'd like to get to the
> bottom of it. When starting `mutt`, sometimes it hangs for a long time
> before drawing the UI (input is appropriately buffered though). Is there
> some network call done on startup or other I/O (`strace` shows that it
> is in the middle of a `poll` call when it is hanging) that might be
> timing out? Currently using 1.10.1, but I've been seeing it for a while
> now, so it isn't new behavior.
> 

Can you start mutt with "mutt -d 2" and see if you get more information 
then? 

Check first that your mutt is compiled with DEBUG though:

mutt -v | grep DEBUG


Jostein


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