[ltp] programs take much too long to start

[Ejnar Zacho Rath]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:03:39 -0500, morpheus <morpheus@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> It's quite likely that you have an unmounted file system in your
> PATH...I have had this problem in the past.  Do you have any SAMBA
> shares or NFS shares that may not be mounted?  Or, it could be you
> mounted a CD/DVD then unmounted it but left a console open
> at /mnt/cdrom.
> Check your PATH and try closing all consoles except the one you're
> working on, and make sure it's at a valid location, like your home
> directory.
> 
> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:39 +0100, Moritz Karbach wrote:
> > > How do you mean start? What is the hard drive doing in this time? Is it
> > > reading like crazy, or just short regular bursts?
> >
> > I mean that I open a shell and type "vi", then go for a coffee, then work with
> > vi as usual... Neither the hard drive is doing anything, nor is there any cpu
> > load during the starting time. It's just doing nothing!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > - Moritz
What about /var/log/messages ?  Any hints there?  To me it sounds like
a network related problem as suggested by morpheus, or an umounted
file system that is in your PATH.

Good luck.
-- 
Ejnar Zacho Rath