I'm running emacs 29.3 on GNU/Linux and OSX. When I updated auctex from v 13.2.1 to v. 14.0.4, I see "Checking <path-to>/elpa/auctex-14.0.4..." seemingly forever (until I give up and C-g it).
On my G/L system, the relevant output in the *Messages* buffer is:
Contacting host:
elpa.gnu.org:443 [2 times]
Parsing tar file...done
Extracting...done
INFO Scraping files for loaddefs...done
GEN auctex-autoloads.el
Checking ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-14.0.4... [3 times]
Wrote ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-14.0.4/auctex.elc
Checking ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-14.0.4...
Wrote ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-14.0.4/bib-cite.elc
Checking ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-14.0.4...
Quit
OSX also hung with the same message, but I didn't look at the *Messages* buffer.
Any guidance on what's going on here? Auctex seems to be ok still (I just opened a .tex file and looked at it, but didn't push it any further), but my package-selected-packages list is all screwed up now.
Is it possible that this is a much longer process than I'm expecting and I just need to let it finish? I haven't timed it yet, but I think I let it run for ~20 minutes.
Peter