I already had the queue.el installed for a long time. But today I decided to delete the elpa dir and install all packages afresh. The batch package installation progressed fine until it reached the point of installing queue.el. The installation aborted because of this error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Failed to verify signature queue-0.1.1.el.sig: (\"Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent \")") signal(error ("Failed to verify signature queue-0.1.1.el.sig: (\"Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent < elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>\")")) error("Failed to verify signature %s: %S" "queue-0.1.1.el.sig" ("Bad signature from 474F05837FBDEF9B GNU ELPA Signing Agent < elpasign@elpa.gnu.org>")) package--check-signature("http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/" "queue-0.1.1.el") package-install-from-archive([cl-struct-package-desc queue (0 1 1) "Queue data structure" nil single "gnu" nil ((:url . " http://www.dr-qubit.org/emacs.php") (:keywords "extensions" "data structures" "queue")) nil]) mapc(package-install-from-archive ([cl-struct-package-desc queue (0 1 1) "Queue data structure" nil single "gnu" nil ((:url . " http://www.dr-qubit.org/emacs.php") (:keywords "extensions" "data structures" "queue")) nil] [cl-struct-package-desc clojure-mode (20160226 956) "Major mode for Clojure code" ((emacs (24 3))) single "melpa" nil ((:url . "http://github.com/clojure-emacs/clojure-mode") (:keywords "languages" "clojure" "clojurescript" "lisp")) nil] [cl-struct-package-desc cider (20160309 808) "Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks" ((emacs (24 3)) (clojure-mode (5 2 0)) (pkg-info (0 4)) (queue (0 1 1)) (spinner (1 7)) (seq (1 9))) tar "melpa" nil ((:url . " http://www.github.com/clojure-emacs/cider") (:keywords "languages" "clojure" "cider")) nil])) package-download-transaction(([cl-struct-package-desc queue (0 1 1) "Queue data structure" nil single "gnu" nil ((:url . " http://www.dr-qubit.org/emacs.php") (:keywords "extensions" "data structures" "queue")) nil] [cl-struct-package-desc clojure-mode (20160226 956) "Major mode for Clojure code" ((emacs (24 3))) single "melpa" nil ((:url . "http://github.com/clojure-emacs/clojure-mode") (:keywords "languages" "clojure" "clojurescript" "lisp")) nil] [cl-struct-package-desc cider (20160309 808) "Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks" ((emacs (24 3)) (clojure-mode (5 2 0)) (pkg-info (0 4)) (queue (0 1 1)) (spinner (1 7)) (seq (1 9))) tar "melpa" nil ((:url . " http://www.github.com/clojure-emacs/cider") (:keywords "languages" "clojure" "cider")) nil])) package-install(cider) In GNU Emacs 24.5.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23) of 2015-10-14 on Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60900000 System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.6 (Santiago) Configured using: `configure --prefix=/cad/adi/apps/gnu/linux/x86_64/6/local/emacs/24.5 --with-gif=no --with-x-toolkit=gtk2' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: which-key-mode: t global-hardcore-mode: t hardcore-mode: t minibuffer-line-mode: t global-undo-tree-mode: t undo-tree-mode: t global-page-break-lines-mode: t page-break-lines-mode: t keyfreq-autosave-mode: t keyfreq-mode: t global-hungry-delete-mode: t hungry-delete-mode: t volatile-highlights-mode: t engine-mode: t drag-stuff-global-mode: t drag-stuff-mode: t beacon-mode: t ace-window-display-mode: t shackle-mode: t display-time-mode: t modi-mode: t global-auto-complete-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t projectile-global-mode: t projectile-mode: t Info-breadcrumbs-in-mode-line-mode: t async-bytecomp-package-mode: t global-hi-lock-mode: t hi-lock-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t ivy-mode: t override-global-mode: t show-paren-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t -- Kaushal Modi