Prompt takes ~10 seconds to arrive.

Environment

PS version: 7.1.0
PSReadline version: 2.1.0
os: 10.0.14393.0 (rs1_release.160715-1616)
PS file version: 7.1.0.0
HostName: ConsoleHost
BufferWidth: 120
BufferHeight: 9001

I’m here from https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/14266

The OS is Windows 10, heavily restricted with policies and no internet.

Using pwsh -NonInteractive doesn’t have this problem.

Tell me what I should investiguate, maybe use the latest master? some wireshark trace?

Exception report

No exceptions

Steps to reproduce

Simply run pwsh.

Expected behavior

Almost instant prompt.

Actual behavior

it displays this instantly:

PowerShell 7.1.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

https://aka.ms/powershell
Type 'help' to get help.

Then after ~10 seconds it displays PS C:\Users\foo> and I can enter commands.

[msftrncs]

PSReadLine does retrieve a command history file at start up. I find that some of my installations take a while to load this file.

Try the command:

(Get-PSReadLineOption).HistorySavePath

Check out the file it returns, and see if it is really large, or if access to it is very slow, possibly by network redirection.

[Silex]

Actually -NoProfile is slow as well now.

It’s the default install I don’t have any modules:

PS C:\Users\philippe> pwsh -NoProfile
PowerShell 7.1.2
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.

https://aka.ms/powershell
Type 'help' to get help.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 10 SECONDS WAIT HERE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
PS C:\Users\philippe> Get-Module

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Script     2.1.0                 PSReadLine                          {Get-PSReadLineKeyHandler, Get-PSReadLineOption, …

PS C:\Users\philippe>