Subject: bug#31167: 27.0.50; When the computer has no network connection, Emacs can take minutes to start

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:25:07 +0200

Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]> writes:

> According to this message from 2014 [1] it was resolved, and the
> etc/PROBLEMS entry was removed.  But the entry is still there in current
> master.

Hm...  I remember running into this a couple of weeks ago on a Debian
jessie system, and the Emacs there is...  let's see...  25.1.1.  That's
after 2014, I think, so perhaps that explains why it returned?

vc-mode seems to say that it's been in etc/PROBLEMS since around
2001-2004.

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