fail to finish fresh installation

[phinicota]

Description

I am not able to finish spacemacs installation (completely fresh).
Might be worth mentioning:

• I'm behind a corporate proxy (got my http_proxy and https_proxy variabels in environment)
• Already tried the --insecure fix and the ssh/dns fix.
• It doesn't seem to be completely frozen: If I C-g whilte it's stuck, I'm in a working state missing keybindings and configurations.

Reproduction guide

1- Install Emacs from some source
2- Obtain spacemacs (tried cloning and zip file)
3- Run Emacs (tried ---insecure too)
4- Choose vim mode and any option (base or recommended install)

Observed behaviour:

FIRST LAUNCH

AFTER FIRST LAUNCH

--debug-init OUTPUT

System Info

I am running:
Debian Jessie
GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (although tried also 24.5.1 from debian testing)
spacemacs-base-0.105.21

Backtrace

Where it hangs on first launch:
installing package: ws-butler@spacemacs-base...

Successive launches (as seen in images):
Loading HOME/.emacs.d/layers/+lang/emacs-lisp/packages.el (source)... done
--debug-init output:
(Spacemacs) -> init (spacemacs-base)

[a13ph]

@phinicota I had this issue for around two days and I still don't know for sure how I've solved it or how to reproduce it.

My weak guesses:

• Some bad config file/directory existence was overlooked
• Environment variables were causing trouble (via exec-path-from-shell maybe), which is why when I had success it was running emacs from [funny enough, 3 layers of] ranger
• Compiled elisp leftovers were messing me up between my tries of emacs 24 and 25 (though I doubt that's the case)

Since my success translated easily to my pretty heavy config, and between different versions of spacemacs, it's probably not a branch thing either.

[phinicota]

I somehow doubt it could be environment variables, I'm running almost (as far as we can tell) the same installation as a collegue.

The only grand difference we can find is we have different proxy/dns assigned. This ssh/dns fix seemed like it could work... could it be missing something? Is there a way I could confirm dns is messing up?

[phinicota]

To update on this, I haven't found a solution, but I've tried running it from terminal and emacs -nw seems to be working fine. Same with emacs --daemon and emacsclient -nc afterwards. Any clues?

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