Spacemacs develop branch frozen when using Emacs 24.5

[lvicentesanchez]

I have been using the develop branch for a while and suddenly is not working any more with my emacs 24.5 (compiled from source).

I was working fine until a few days ago, now no matter what I try, the UI is frozen and literally nothing works.. not even key bindings.

Is there anything I can do to debug the issue? Anything that doesn't involve accessing emacs buffers,...

Btw... v103.6 works flawlessly.

[lvicentesanchez]

Actually I have the same problem with v103.6 ... so it might be one of the packages :/ I will disable everything.

[lvicentesanchez]

Didn't make a different. I had to rollback to emacs 24.4 and now everything works normally.

[stormpat]

I have the same problems with 24.5. However the master branch is working normally with 24.5

[jgmize]

I'm running 24.5 and spacemacs 0.104.2 and when I first launch I get the same behavior-- completely frozen UI, no response to any keybindings. Based on the comments on this issue I was about to downgrade to emacs 24.4, but when switched back it was responsive again. I tried opening and closing multiple times in both the console and the gui, and the same behavior is repeated. The delay is variable, but it usually becomes responsive after a minute or two.

[justbur]

Sounds to me like it's trying to install one of the "preloaded" packages and something it failing. Probably the network.

[lvicentesanchez]

that happens the first time you open Emacs after everything has been
installed and happens every single time so it can't be a network issue
On 31 Oct 2015 15:50, "Justin Burkett" notifications@github.com wrote:

Sounds to me like it's trying to install one of the "preloaded" packages
and something it failing. Probably the network.

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[justbur]

Well you can try emacs --debug-init --timed-requires If there's an error it will popup a debugger with a backtrace that you can post. If there's a package that is taking a long time to load, it will be recorded in the load-times buffer

[TheBB]

I can't link as I'm on mobile but if you check out helm bug number 1000 I can almost guarantee that is what you are experiencing, @jgimze

[jgmize]

@TheBB you were right, thanks! jgmize/dotfiles@3c3239e resolved the issue for me.

@justbur FYI emacs --debug-init --timed-requires didn't work for me; I got Unknown option: --timed-requires and based on your comment #3317 (comment) I believe that's because it's a develop feature, but thanks for the suggestion.

[justbur]

It is a develop feature. Sorry I should have mentioned that
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@TheBB https://github.com/TheBB you were right, thanks! jgmize/dotfiles@
3c3239e
jgmize/dotfiles@3c3239e
resolved the issue for me. Thanks!

@justbur https://github.com/justbur FYI emacs --debug-init
--timed-requires didn't work for me; I got Unknown option:
--timed-requires and based on your comment #3317 (comment)
#3317 (comment)
I believe that's because it's a develop feature

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[lvicentesanchez]

The workaround also works for me; one curious thing is that I only have
this problem under Ubuntu 15.04; my macosx 24.5 installation works without
having to do any workaround.

2015-10-31 17:11 GMT+00:00 Justin Burkett notifications@github.com:

It is a develop feature. Sorry I should have mentioned that
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@TheBB https://github.com/TheBB you were right, thanks!
jgmize/dotfiles@
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jgmize/dotfiles@3c3239e

resolved the issue for me. Thanks!

@justbur https://github.com/justbur FYI emacs --debug-init
--timed-requires didn't work for me; I got Unknown option:
--timed-requires and based on your comment #3317 (comment)
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https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3317#issuecomment-146881410>
I believe that's because it's a develop feature

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[StreakyCobra]

As it's an upstream bug already reported, there is nothing more that we can do on our side, so I'm closing the issue. In any case, feel free to open a new one in case of troubles ☺️