Bug-hunter finds error but it shouldn't (false positive)

[bertulli]

Hi! I've tried to search for help on the Emacs SE but with no fortune. Here's the problem:

When I launch Bug-hunter (M-x bug-hunter-init-file), I am asked which type of debug I want, and I choose interactive (i), then I am presented with the initial menu. Upon pressing 6 to start, A new Emacs frame opens up, but here's the catch! It gives an error in the echo area (let: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, windsize). The Emacs session I got is basic (as if I launched it with -q). When I close it, I answer n (since the error is not present), and I got this:

Test failed.
The assertion returned nil after loading the entire file.
Remember, the assertion must be an expression that returns
non-nil in your current (problematic) Emacs state, AND that
returns nil on a clean Emacs instance.
If you're unsure how to write an assertion, you can try the interactive
hunt instead, or see some examples in the Readme:
    https://github.com/Malabarba/elisp-bug-hunter
interactive
^L

What am I doing wrong?

Note that, if I try to automatically debug my init-file, I got an error on

  The following error was signaled here:
    (file-missing "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "windsize")
  Caused by the following expression:
    (require 'windsize)

like if windsize causes an error. However, in my init file all works good (checking with --debug-init), and btw if I try to remove that line it seems that, one after the other, all require are errors. Is this normal?

[Malabarba]

Hi there. No, this is not normal. Might just be an incompatibility with one of the latest versions. Which emacs version are you on?

[bertulli]

GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.33, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-04-28, on Linux 5.18.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:33:02 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Malabarba]

Ok, I'll try to debug this when I get some free time. No promises though. :-/ Free time has been a luxury of late...

Any help is appreciated though. :-)

[bertulli]

Ok I may have found the problem. It was completely on my side: while progressively tweaking my init file, some code ended up before the call to (package-initialize). I'm no expert of Emacs' startup process, but I suppose that was the reason it couldn't find the packages. Considering this, I'm wondering how it could start normally before. Anyway, thanks, and sorry if I wasted your time!