bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

emacs -Q
M-: (require 'package) RET

;;; wait a couple of minutes, then finally the evaluation finishes:
package

This only happens on Windows, and it only started happening a few weeks
ago.  Before that, my Emacs experience on Windows was fine.

I do not see this problem on macOS or GNU/Linux.

-----



In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2016-11-15 built on LAPHROAIG
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
Configured using:
 'configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2
 -static -g3''

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Quit
package

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec password-cache epg gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils package
epg-config seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode
easymenu cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip
eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd
fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode
lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame
cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian
slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty
make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 97731 8404)
 (symbols 56 20513 0)
 (miscs 48 89 140)
 (strings 32 19300 5252)
 (string-bytes 1 561490)
 (vectors 16 13463)
 (vector-slots 8 442515 4880)
 (floats 8 181 46)
 (intervals 56 280 47)
 (buffers 976 19))

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

Additional backtrace information that might be useful, via M-x
toggle-debug-on-quit:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
  call-process("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
  nil (t nil) nil "--with-colons" "--list-config")
  apply(call-process
  "c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
  nil (t nil) nil ("--with-colons" "--list-config"))
  epg-config--make-gpg-configuration("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe")
  epg-find-configuration(OpenPGP)
  #[0 "\300\301!\205

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017, at 10:00, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote:
> emacs -Q
> M-: (require 'package) RET
> 
> ;;; wait a couple of minutes, then finally the evaluation finishes:
> package
> 
> This only happens on Windows, and it only started happening a few weeks
> ago.  Before that, my Emacs experience on Windows was fine.
> 
> I do not see this problem on macOS or GNU/Linux.
> 
> -----
> 
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
>  of 2016-11-15 built on LAPHROAIG
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
> Configured using:
>  'configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2
>  -static -g3''
> 
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
> 
> Important settings:
>   value of $LANG: ENU
>   locale-coding-system: cp1252
> 
> Major mode: Fundamental
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
>   tooltip-mode: t
>   global-eldoc-mode: t
>   electric-indent-mode: t
>   mouse-wheel-mode: t
>   tool-bar-mode: t
>   menu-bar-mode: t
>   file-name-shadow-mode: t
>   global-font-lock-mode: t
>   blink-cursor-mode: t
>   auto-composition-mode: t
>   auto-encryption-mode: t
>   auto-compression-mode: t
>   buffer-read-only: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>   transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Quit
> package
> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml
> mml-sec password-cache epg gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode
> mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047
> rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils package
> epg-config seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode
> easymenu cconv cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip
> eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel
> dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd
> fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode
> lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
> scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame
> cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
> tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian
> slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript
> case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
> cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
> text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
> custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote w32notify w32 multi-tty
> make-network-process emacs)
> 
> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 97731 8404)
>  (symbols 56 20513 0)
>  (miscs 48 89 140)
>  (strings 32 19300 5252)
>  (string-bytes 1 561490)
>  (vectors 16 13463)
>  (vector-slots 8 442515 4880)
>  (floats 8 181 46)
>  (intervals 56 280 47)
>  (buffers 976 19))


-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth | http://knauth.org/gsk

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff@knauth.org> wrote:
> Additional backtrace information that might be useful, via M-x
> toggle-debug-on-quit:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>   call-process("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
>   nil (t nil) nil "--with-colons" "--list-config")

https://github.com/fpco/minghc says "MinGHC is dead. Please use Stack."
Does that mean anything to you?

If you run 'gpg --with-colons --list-config' at the command line does
it also take 2 minutes?

>   apply(call-process
>   "c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
>   nil (t nil) nil ("--with-colons" "--list-config"))
>   epg-config--make-gpg-configuration("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe")
>   epg-find-configuration(OpenPGP)
>   #[0 "\300\301!\205

It looks like the backtrace was cut off, could you save it in Emacs,
and send it as attachment instead?
Also, please start emacs as 'emacs -Q -l package.el -l epg.el' which
should load some sources and give a nicer backtrace.

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

Oh, I see what happened.  Somehow a gpg was on the PATH from an old minghc installation.  I’ll remove it and try again.

MinGHC and Stack are Haskell programming tools.

Let me see if removing MinGHC solves the problem.

Geoff

> On Mar 31, 2017, at 13:15 , Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff@knauth.org> wrote:
>> Additional backtrace information that might be useful, via M-x
>> toggle-debug-on-quit:
>> 
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>>  call-process("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
>>  nil (t nil) nil "--with-colons" "--list-config")
> 
> https://github.com/fpco/minghc says "MinGHC is dead. Please use Stack."
> Does that mean anything to you?
> 
> If you run 'gpg --with-colons --list-config' at the command line does
> it also take 2 minutes?
> 
>>  apply(call-process
>>  "c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
>>  nil (t nil) nil ("--with-colons" "--list-config"))
>>  epg-config--make-gpg-configuration("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe")
>>  epg-find-configuration(OpenPGP)
>>  #[0 "\300\301!\205
> 
> It looks like the backtrace was cut off, could you save it in Emacs,
> and send it as attachment instead?
> Also, please start emacs as 'emacs -Q -l package.el -l epg.el' which
> should load some sources and give a nicer backtrace.

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Geoffrey S. Knauth]

I removed MinGHC and the problem disappeared.  So I think you can mark this as RESOLVED and NOT-AN-EMACS-BUG or however you express that.

Thanks again for your help.

Geoff

> On Mar 31, 2017, at 13:54 , Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff@knauth.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh, I see what happened.  Somehow a gpg was on the PATH from an old minghc installation.  I’ll remove it and try again.
> 
> MinGHC and Stack are Haskell programming tools.
> 
> Let me see if removing MinGHC solves the problem.
> 
> Geoff
> 
>> On Mar 31, 2017, at 13:15 , Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff@knauth.org> wrote:
>>> Additional backtrace information that might be useful, via M-x
>>> toggle-debug-on-quit:
>>> 
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>>> call-process("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
>>> nil (t nil) nil "--with-colons" "--list-config")
>> 
>> https://github.com/fpco/minghc says "MinGHC is dead. Please use Stack."
>> Does that mean anything to you?
>> 
>> If you run 'gpg --with-colons --list-config' at the command line does
>> it also take 2 minutes?
>> 
>>> apply(call-process
>>> "c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe"
>>> nil (t nil) nil ("--with-colons" "--list-config"))
>>> epg-config--make-gpg-configuration("c:/Users/knauthg/AppData/Local/Programs/minghc-7.10.2-x86_64/git-2.4.5.1/usr/bin/gpg.exe")
>>> epg-find-configuration(OpenPGP)
>>> #[0 "\300\301!\205
>> 
>> It looks like the backtrace was cut off, could you save it in Emacs,
>> and send it as attachment instead?
>> Also, please start emacs as 'emacs -Q -l package.el -l epg.el' which
>> should load some sources and give a nicer backtrace.
> 

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Noam Postavsky]

# not an Emacs bug
tag 26321 notabug
close 26321
quit

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff@knauth.org> wrote:
> I removed MinGHC and the problem disappeared.  So I think you can mark this as RESOLVED and NOT-AN-EMACS-BUG or however you express that.

Thanks for confirming.

bug#26321: 25.1; (require 'package) takes minutes on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Geoffrey S. Knauth" <geoff@knauth.org>
> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:00:28 -0400
> 
> emacs -Q
> M-: (require 'package) RET
> 
> ;;; wait a couple of minutes, then finally the evaluation finishes:
> package
> 
> This only happens on Windows, and it only started happening a few weeks
> ago.  Before that, my Emacs experience on Windows was fine.

Not reproducible here, on MS-Windows.

Could it be that something has changed on your system since then?