Subject: Re: bug#28502: 25.3; list-packages ends with "error in process filter: End of file during parsing"

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:47:23 +0200

Alex Branham <[email-masked]> writes:

> After nuking ~/.emacs.d/elpa, the problem went away and hasn't recurred.
> Perhaps there should be some sort of package-force-archive-refresh
> function to force overwriting the archive contents?

No, normally this should never happen, there seems to be a problem with
inconsistent or broken package caches.  We need to find out what goes
wrong.

Have you made a backup of the files you deleted btw?  They could be
useful for debugging.

Michael.