Forge-pull hangs on initial pull

[gabrielsaldana]

Recently when trying to run forge-pull on a repository (github or gitlab), emacs either hangs or takes a long time (hours) to complete the initial pull, even on brand new repositories. The last message I see in the Messages buffer is: uncompressing publicsuffix.txt.gz...done

After reinstalling forge, the process just hangs or does nothing. The uncompressing publicsuffix.txt.gz message no longer shows but doesn't fix the problem, emacs still hangs or takes hours to finish.

Using emacs 29.3 (macOS)

I'm not sure how to provide additional details, as I don't see anything else in the Messages buffer and there is no error, just hangs.

[tarsius]

First do M-x toggle-debug-on-signal and then when Emacs hangs press C-g. That might give you a backtrace.

uncompressing publicsuffix.txt.gz...done

I don't know what that is. Do you know the purpose of this file? (If not, search for it and have a look. You might also want to grep ~/.config/emacs for publicsuffix.)

[MoskitoHero]

How was this fixed? I have exactly the same problem. Emacs just totally freezes and becomes unresponsive for hours. Debug output shows nothing... I have to kill it and restart.

[MoskitoHero]

OK, turns out my gitlab username had no capital letters in it (moskitohero), and I defined my local gitlab username with capital letters (MoskitoHero)...

I believe this used to work because I cannot remember changing it since the inital setup a few years back. So in case someone stumbles upon this issue, just check your username is consistent. 😉

[tarsius]

@MoskitoHero Could also be #720. I intend to fix that later this week.