From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<") Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:59:22 -0800 Message-ID: <87o82wi1s5.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y220i2b8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87sfs817ap.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SOfeeTRsWXHtdv9oWawX1herc38= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 24 19:01:26 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nNIQf-0000fe-KR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:01:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38348 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNIQd-0005pG-I2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNIOs-0004Tn-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57524) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nNIOq-0004gK-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nNIOn-0008q6-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:59:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286666 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> For several weeks, every time I update packages I get the error below. >> Recently it seems to be raised once per package updated. Does anyone >> know what might be causing this? >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#<") >> signal(invalid-read-syntax ("#<")) > > What's in the buffer when you get this? Which buffer do you mean? I see this when running an update from *Packages*. I hit "U", it starts doing its thing, and then raises these errors from the process sentinel. The actual update/installation seems to succeed just fine, and it goes on to update/install the next package successfully, usually followed by this error again.