[ltp] programs take much too long to start

[morpheus]

This can happen if you have a directory in your PATH that is on an
unmounted file system, or if you have a console open and the shell is in
a directory that is on a file system that has subsequently been
unmounted.

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 15:39 +0100, Moritz Karbach wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> maybe you got an idea:
> 
> Sometimes almost all programs on my Thinkpad R51 take much too long to start. 
> That is for instance about 20s for starting vi. After this long time the 
> programs operate just as normal.
> 
> This happens both for root and my user. Normally the problem is gone, if I 
> just do a reboot. Strace doesn't tell something useful to me. If I start vi 
> on the "real" console (ctrl+alt+f1), it works normally.
> 
> I use Debian unstable, KDE 3.2, 2.6.7 kernel.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> - Moritz
> 
> -- 
>  m:o