# cmake hangs while configuring just after the message Found Threads: TRUE

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-hangs-while-configuring-just-after-the-message-found-threads-true/6821
**Category:** Usage
**Tags:** os:linux
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-hangs-while-configuring-just-after-the-message-found-threads-true/6821 "2022-11-09T12:52:25Z")
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### Author: ![hamlatzis](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@hamlatzis](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/hamlatzis)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-hangs-while-configuring-just-after-the-message-found-threads-true/6821/1 "2022-11-09T12:52:25Z")

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I have my CMakeLists.txt and want to configure my program before compiling it.

I call cmake passing all the parameters I need for configuring my c++ code and it hangs after the message “-- Found Threads: TRUE”, so cannot continue to build my application calling “cmake --build . -j”

Is there a way I can find out what’s going wrong? Up until yesterday everything was fine. My cmake version is 3.24.3

thanks

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### Author: ![bill.hoffman](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/bill.hoffman/32/13_2.png) [@bill.hoffman](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/bill.hoffman)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-hangs-while-configuring-just-after-the-message-found-threads-true/6821/2 "2022-11-09T21:52:58Z")

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Run cmake with --trace. Also look in the CMakeFiles directory for logs and see where it is hanging. My guess would be some compile command in a try compile is hanging.

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### Author: ![hamlatzis](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@hamlatzis](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/hamlatzis)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-hangs-while-configuring-just-after-the-message-found-threads-true/6821/3 "2022-11-10T07:01:32Z")

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Thanks a lot

it seems it was trying to download some external libraries needed from CMakelists.txt; but someone here had messed with the firewall rules and had restricted all connections outside the company.