It gets stuck installing packages using gnutls-cli (using Windows 8)

[ghost]

Hello,

I'm using Emacs 24.5.1 in Windows 8

Yesterday I upgraded to Spacemacs 0.103.2 but soon something started going wrong.

First Spacemacs failed to install the extensions 'spray' and 'revive'.
I thought it would be easier to install everything from scratch, so I cloned the whole repository from scratch. Unfortunately Spacemacs wasn't able to start up. It got stuck installing all the necessary packages, showing the following message:

Opening TLS connection with 'gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 elpa.gnu.org' ... done

I tried Emacs 25.0.50.1 and this time it installed 94 packages successfully. But after re-start, it got stuck installing some packages again! Here is a screenshot:

Any ideas what's happening?

Many thanks.

[ncihnegn]

Same problem here

[ncihnegn]

After I remove gnutls, it still reports errors for elpa, but continues to work fine with other repos.

[ncihnegn]

One workaround is to redefine package-archives with HTTP instead of HTTPS for elpa.

[ghost]

Hello @ncihnegn
I installed Emacs directly from msys2. My Emacs version is:
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2015-05-13 on CAB8
What I did to solve the problem was the following:
1- Remove the current gnutls package that was installed

pacman -R msys/gnutls

Install gnutls from mingw32 (I tried installing it from mingw64 didn't work)

pacman -S mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-gnutls 3.4.2-1' installed

So this is the output when I type

pacman -Ss gnutls

I hope this helped to you too.

[ncihnegn]

Interesing. I tried to install i686-gnutls but it didn't help.

[ncihnegn]

Alright. It works now after I change PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH to PATH=$PATH:/mingw64/bin. It will be nice if we figure out why.

[justbur]

It means you have another gnutls-cli program in your path somewhere I
believe
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 2:34 PM ncihnegn notifications@github.com wrote:

Alright. It works now after I change PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH to
PATH=$PATH:/mingw64/bin. It will be nice if we figure out why.

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[ncihnegn]

In that case, msys/gnutls works for me but mingw64/gnutls didn't.

[StreakyCobra]

Anyone still experiencing this issue?

[casimir]

Tried the different solutions but still experiencing it @StreakyCobra.

[StreakyCobra]

What I don't really get is why it needs TLS as all repositories are using http and not https (https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/core/core-configuration-layer.el#L27-L29). Do you have the last spacemacs version (0.104.5)? If yes, can you give the output of SPC h d s?

[casimir]

Didn't notice it was the Spacemacs repo, I end up here by searching bugs with gnutls from msys2. I use the emacs version from msys2 too. It looks like this is more a mingw64/gnutls bug. For me, when refreshing/installing package gnutls-cli goes crazy and I have to kill it.

Anyway if you don't use the https version you shouldn't have this problem anymore. Sorry for the noise.

[StreakyCobra]

No problem :-) @RafaelGP @ncihnegn Do you still have this problem with last spacemacs release?

[ghost]

I moved to work with Emacs inside a Virtual Box, so sorry I don't know if this issue is still happening.

[StreakyCobra]

Ok, thanks for your comment :-) @ncihnegn on your side?

[ncihnegn]

No issues here. I don't even have gnutls-cli at all.

[StreakyCobra]

Ok thanks for your answer.

As nobody has currently this problem, we can not help any further. I'm then closing this issue. Anyway, feel free to open a new one in case of troubles. Please include a link to this one if you thinks it's related ☺️

[mihaelS]

@StreakyCobra, reopen the issue, please.

Same error.

Windows 10
emacs 26.0.91 x86_64
spacemacs 0.200.13

• Get this error (without gnutls):
  'gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 elpa.gnu.org' ... done

• With installed gnutls (added libgnutls-30.dll to the /bin/ folder), get this message:
  

  • and same error, when trying to translate with google-ui
    

  • And then emacs hangs up and I have to kill the emacs process.

Seems that there is some kind of problem with the gnutls on Windows.

Can anyone help to fix it?

[StreakyCobra]

@mihaelS I'm not a spacemacs collaborator anymore, sorry.

[mihaelS]

@syl20bnr, reopen this issue, please.

[ygol]

having the same problem under windows 10.