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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: unreproducible

Found in version 25.3

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28502 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#28502: 25.3; list-packages ends with "error in process filter: End of file during parsing"
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:47:23 +0200

Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com> 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.
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