GNU bug report logs - #45415
Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Eric S. Londres" <EricLondres <at> outlook.com>

Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 02:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "Eric S. Londres" <EricLondres <at> outlook.com>, 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45415: Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 07:01:10 +0100
Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/7312

For the record: this means that Emacs might fail to start.  Mine didn't
even get far enough to open the first X frame.  One needs to start with
-q.

Then I had to edit the package descriptions of all packages I had tried
to upgrade by hand.  In ~/.emacs.d/elpa for any package directory of any
package "foo", in the directory of "foo" I needed to change the first
line of the file "foo-pkg.el":

(define-package foo ...

to

(define-package "foo" ...

to make package initialization succeed again.


HTH,

Michael.




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