Emacs gets stuck on "Indexing layers..." during boot.

[Martinsos]

Description

Forever stuck during boot, on "Indexing layers...".

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs, and ~ 1 out of 20 times this will happen.

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔
When it gets stuck, I quit re-enter emacs couple of times and then it is ok again.
I also reinstalled emacs completely and it didn't help.
I also installed it on fresh machine for the first time, and again the same problem.
This has been happening for some time now (months, maybe even a year, not sure).

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄
It should not get stuck.

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux (Archlinux)
• Emacs: 27.2
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 4262e01)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(python windows-scripts vimscript meson ruby docker terraform emoji
        auto-completion better-defaults emacs-lisp git
        (haskell :variables haskell-completion-backend 'dante dante-tap-type-time 1 haskell-indentation-layout-offset 4 haskell-indentation-starter-offset 4 haskell-indentation-left-offset 4 haskell-indentation-where-pre-offset 2 haskell-indentation-where-post-offset 2)
        helm html
        (javascript :variables js2-mode-show-strict-warnings nil js2-basic-offset 2 js-indent-level 2)
        lsp markdown multiple-cursors org
        (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
        (syntax-checking :variables syntax-checking-enable-tooltips nil flycheck-display-errors-function #'flycheck-display-error-messages-unless-error-list)
        treemacs version-control yaml cmake)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

[lebensterben]

I haven't encounter this problem myself. Need more report from community.

In the meantime consider to run Emacs in a daemon.

[Martinsos]

I found this one under closed issues #8941 , however it ends up with an ask for possibly re-opening the issue due to the proposed solution not being completely effective.

I had problems running emacs in a daemon so I am keen into investing some more time into trying to fixing this before giving that a go again.

Do you have any suggestion on how to possibly debug this, or what to look into? Why is this "indexing of layers" step and what could be the potential problem here?

[lebensterben]

If you mean you cannot run Emacs client as --fg-daemon, just run it as --daemon.

To start debugging, search "indexing of layers" in the source.

spacemacs/core/core-configuration-layer.el

Line 1414 in bc27203

(spacemacs-buffer/set-mode-line "Indexing layers..." t)

Then randomly add some (kill-emacs) to figure out where it actually hangs. If it quit, the site of (kill-emacs) is before what cause it to hang. If it hang, the cause of hanging is after the last (kill-emacs) you inserted.

[ksjogo]

Also started running into this with layers apparently not being loaded, will have a look.

[alexriabtsev]

I'm getting the same error when fullscreen mode is enabled.

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