Hi,
I know this thread is old. but still no time to publish timer. And I am having the same issue with one of my reports. Its not my machine, my connection, or etc... I know this because I opened a new PBI window, opened a different file, and published that one in seconds to the same workspace. The only thing that changed in the first file were some cosmetic things. No reason for it to hang now, over 40 minutes. I have cancelled and retried and the same thing happens.
While publishing. CPU at 12% mem at 42%, Disk at 1% and Network at 0-1 % (and thats with a live monitoring tool running in parrallel).
At first the little dotted circles spins at a normal speed and then it just crawls almost to a stop.
I had this happen to me with other fiels too. Just last week I had the issue with the one that I just mentioned above that worked. It hung. After a half a day I gave up. The next mornign I tried again, and no issues.