Subject: bug#55447: 29.0.50; package-quickstart.el contains '#$', preventing Emacs from initializing correctly

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 14:22:55 +0200

Daniel Semyonov <[email-masked]> writes:

> After invoking 'package-quickstart-refresh' (either manually or
> automatically), 'package-quickstart.el' contains the following sexp for
> each package:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path (directory-file-name
>                          (or (file-name-directory #$) (car load-path))))
>                                                   ^^

I suspect that you have some .elc files that have been corrupted by an
earlier Emacs version at some point (I vaguely remember there being an
error here for a couple of days a while ago).  Try deleting all the .elc
files in your package directory and see whether that helps.

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