* bug#12981: list-packages (void-function mailcap-parse-mailcaps) due to an old mailcap.el file
@ 2012-11-24 15:27 frances frederic
2012-11-24 18:45 ` Glenn Morris
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From: frances frederic @ 2012-11-24 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 12981
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Hi
I've recently installed emacs 24.2 on a debian virtual-box
After configuring elpa there was errors when running list-packages
So I've used toggle-on-error and got the following trace:
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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function mailcap-parse-mailcaps)
mailcap-parse-mailcaps()
url-do-setup()
url-retrieve-synchronously("http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents")
package--download-one-archive(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") "archive-contents")
#[nil "\301\302\"\207" [archive package--download-one-archive "archive-contents"] 3]()
package-refresh-contents()
list-packages(nil)
call-interactively(list-packages t nil)
execute-extended-command(nil)
call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
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Then I tried to locate mailcap lisp library using M-x locate-library and found two locations:
M-x locate-library mailcap
- /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/flim/attic/mailcap.el (this one did not contains mailcap-parse-mailcaps)
M-x locate-library mailcap.el.gz
- /usr/share/emacs/24.2/lisp/gnus/mailcap.el.gz
only the second one contains the function required by list-package but the first one is loaded probably because of load-path
finally I remove the oldest version of mailcap.el and elpa works fine now.
I don't know if the old package comes from an old installation or if mailcap.el is included twice with 2 locations and one has not been updated.
Regards
frederic
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