Package: ess Version: 16.04-2 Severity: normal Hello Dirk,
For some reason, ess has started taking a massive time to load at emacs startup time: on my old machine, it is taking about two minutes. (On my newer machine, the relative time differences are similar: With ess present: polya:~ $ time emacs -batch -eval '(nil)' Loading 00debian-vars... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/20apel.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50asymptote.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50auctex.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/preview-latex.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50devscripts-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)... Loading debian-ispell... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dpkg-dev-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ecb.el (source)... ECB 2.40 uses CEDET 2.0 (contains semantic 2.2, eieio 1.4, speedbar <unknown version>). Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50epix.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ess.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50festival.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50flim.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gettext.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gtk-doc-tools.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gtypist.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50haskell-mode.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-mode-autoloads.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lbdb.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lilypond-data.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mmm-mode.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50noweb.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50org-mode.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50php-elisp.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50prolog-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50proofgeneral.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/proofgeneral/generic/proof-site.elc... Loading /etc/emacs24/site-start.d/50psgml-init.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50texlive-lang-english.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50w3m-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yaml-mode.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51debian-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51semi.el (source)... Symbol's function definition is void: nil real 2m9.901s user 0m2.020s sys 0m0.224s Without ess present: polya:~ $ time emacs -batch -eval '(nil)' Loading 00debian-vars... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/20apel.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50asymptote.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50auctex.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/preview-latex.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50devscripts-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)... Loading debian-ispell... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dpkg-dev-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ecb.el (source)... ECB 2.40 uses CEDET 2.0 (contains semantic 2.2, eieio 1.4, speedbar <unknown version>). Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50epix.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50festival.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50flim.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gettext.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gtk-doc-tools.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gtypist.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50haskell-mode.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-mode-autoloads.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lbdb.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lilypond-data.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mmm-mode.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50noweb.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50org-mode.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50php-elisp.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50prolog-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50proofgeneral.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/proofgeneral/generic/proof-site.elc... Loading /etc/emacs24/site-start.d/50psgml-init.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50texlive-lang-english.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50w3m-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50yaml-mode.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51debian-el.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51semi.el (source)... Symbol's function definition is void: nil real 0m7.670s user 0m1.268s sys 0m0.252s Purging and reinstalling ess made little difference. Best wishes, Julian -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers jessie APT policy: (500, 'jessie'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ess depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.7 ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 ii install-info 6.1.0.dfsg.1-8 Versions of packages ess recommends: ii r-base-core 3.3.0.20160615-1 Versions of packages ess suggests: pn jags <none> pn julia <none> pn pspp <none> pn xlispstat <none> -- no debconf information
