Xterm and Terminal Lag

Albion,

Could be any number of thing. do you automount your home directory? Have you checked the log files, console.log and/or system.log either from the command line or using the Console.app?

for the order in which files are accessed, see the "Startup and shutdown" section of the tcsh manpage.

to see what each file is doing. you could put a line like: 'set -xv' in the files. I would only recommend putting it in one file at a time. as it can write a lot of information to the screen. I would start by putting the line, in one of the users files, rather than one that is located in the /etc directory. Also, if the file starts out something like:

#!/bin/tcsh

then put the "set -xv" on the 2nd line in the file.

Andy

I had the same issue. It was Fink's init.csh file. I added the info from init.csh to my .login or .tcshrc without using the append_path and prepend_path aliases.

Those aliases are scary, but they don't look time-consuming. I'd be more worried about all the external commands that are being run. But you know your system best obviously.

Hey, Albion, how's it going?

Try this:

Time how long it takes to manually run

/sw/bin/init.csh

(try it also with bash or zsh running /sw/bin/init.sh ).

I got a bad feeling this is my fault....

Bill

It cost me $7 to post that last one at the airport in Seattle. I'm back now and happy to help in any small way I can.

Take a look at /sw/bin/init.csh. You'll see that in addition to sticking /sw/bin and /sw/sbin at the head of the path, it sources any file in /sw/etc/profile.d

So if you installed my ccp4 package, you will see it sources the normal file.

It turns out there was a bug in fink's /sw/bin/init.csh file. I don't know if it caused your problems, but apparently it is real enough (syntax error).

In any case, update everything.

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general