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Error in process filter big freeze

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From: Clément Miklarz <clement.miklarz <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Error in process filter big freeze
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:59:46 +0100

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Hello,

I used emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32).

I went to Options -> Manage Emacs Packages.
Then it tries to connect to each host I specified in my .emacs.
And here are the logs :
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80
Contacting host: tromey.com:80
Contacting host: marmalade-repo.org:80
Opening TLS connection to `marmalade-repo.org'...
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 marmalade-repo.org
'...failed
Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 marmalade-repo.org
--protocols ssl3'...failed
Opening TLS connection with `openssl s_client -connect
marmalade-repo.org:443 -no_ssl2 -ign_eof'...failed
Opening TLS connection to `marmalade-repo.org'...failed
error in process filter: url-http: Could not create connection to
marmalade-repo.org:443
error in process filter: Could not create connection to
marmalade-repo.org:443
Failed to download `marmalade' archive.

When I get the first error, emacs freeze.
Meanwhile, there seems to be a heavy load on the CPU and the RAM for emacs
rise to 858 Mo.
If I tried again, it freezes again, the CPU is busy but the amount of RAM
does not change.

I changed a little thing in the .emacs :
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "
http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "
http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")).
It still freezes but no big load on the CPU nor any peak of RAM.

I'll try to connect to marmalade later to see if it's related to a fault on
my side or on the host side.
But even if marmalde can't be contacted, it should not bug like this.

Regards,
Clément MIKLARZ

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Message #8 received at 20089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Clément Miklarz <clement.miklarz <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20089: Error in process filter big freeze
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 21:05:46 +0200

> From: Clément Miklarz <clement.miklarz <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:59:46 +0100
> 
> I used emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-mingw32).
> 
> I went to Options -> Manage Emacs Packages.
> Then it tries to connect to each host I specified in my .emacs.
> And here are the logs :
> Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:80
> Contacting host: tromey.com:80
> Contacting host: marmalade-repo.org:80
> Opening TLS connection to `marmalade-repo.org'...
> Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443
> marmalade-repo.org'...failed
> Opening TLS connection with `gnutls-cli --insecure -p 443 marmalade-repo.org -
> -protocols ssl3'...failed

Do you have gnutls-cli.exe on your system?  If so, is it per chance a
Cygwin build of gnutls-cli?

> Opening TLS connection with `openssl s_client -connect marmalade-repo.org:443 -
> no_ssl2 -ign_eof'...failed
> Opening TLS connection to `marmalade-repo.org'...failed
> error in process filter: url-http: Could not create connection to
> marmalade-repo.org:443
> error in process filter: Could not create connection to marmalade-repo.org:443
> Failed to download `marmalade' archive.
> 
> When I get the first error, emacs freeze.
> Meanwhile, there seems to be a heavy load on the CPU and the RAM for emacs rise
> to 858 Mo.
> If I tried again, it freezes again, the CPU is busy but the amount of RAM does
> not change.

Is your Emacs built with GnuTLS support, and if so, do you have the
GnuTLS DLL installed somewhere where Emacs can find it?

When Emacs uses the gnutls-cli program, it communicates with it via
signals, that don't work on Windows, so Emacs waits for gnutls-cli
indefinitely.  So on Windows, the only way to open TLS connection is
to have Emacs built with GnuTLS support.

Message #13 received at 20089-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Clément Miklarz <clement.miklarz <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20089-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20089: Error in process filter big freeze
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:14:36 +0200

> From: Clément Miklarz <clement.miklarz <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:18:03 +0100
> 
> It seems that was indeed the case and getting those DLL resolved my problem.
> There is just one thing I can't understand : I followed the advices here
> (http://חנוך.se/diary/how_to_enable_GnuTLS_for_Emacs_24_on_Windows/index.en.html)
> but I didn't do the " Configure trust files" part and it still works perfectly.
> Should that be a problem ?

The certificates are only needed for HTTPS URLs, and I think Emacs 24
will succeed with HTTPS even if you don't have certificates.  So it's
not a grave problem, but you are still advised to install the
certificates.

> Moreover, I used marmalade to get a package before and it worked
perfectly.
> However, I do not remember if it was with emacs-24.3-bin-i386 or
> emacs-24.4-bin-i686-pc-mingw32 (the one I currently use).

Not sure why this worked, perhaps something changed in your system's
setup or in the order of directories on PATH.

Anyway, I think this bug can be closed now.

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