From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20355: 25.0.50; Package installation fails without a fully loaded init file Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:29:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wq1bnm7x.fsf@loki.jorgenschaefer.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429410627 10137 80.91.229.3 (19 Apr 2015 02:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20355@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jorgen Schaefer Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 19 04:30:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjezv-0003NO-MF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 04:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjezv-0001p7-00 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjezr-0001op-2q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjezn-0005ri-RB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjezn-0005rQ-NX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yjezm-00030h-FH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:30:06 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:30:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20355 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20355-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20355.142941058311520 (code B ref 20355); Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:30:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20355) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Apr 2015 02:29:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60327 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YjezO-0002zk-Hl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47064) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YjezM-0002zc-BC for 20355@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t3J2TcPq029882; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9ED792488; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:29:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87wq1bnm7x.fsf@loki.jorgenschaefer.de> (Jorgen Schaefer's message of "Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:22:10 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5280=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5280> : inlines <2752> : streams <1424824> : uri <1910258> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101703 Archived-At: > I recently accidentally uninstalled a package required by my init.el. > The result was that starting Emacs failed. I then could not install the > package again, though, as package-install failed with an error "the init > file was not fully loaded". I suspect the latter is from the attempt to > set `package-selected-packages'. The same error happened when I started > Emacs with -q. Hmm... could you give a slightly more detailed recipe. I think package.el does not degrade gracefully enough in such "inconsistent" states, indeed. Stefan