"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

Thanks for the pointer.

For now the problem went away after I uninstalled package marshall,
which was being used by gh which in turn was being used by gist. I blew
those three away for now --- haven't used gist in a while --- but yes,
byte-compiling that file may be the problem.> Sounds like there may be a complication with byte-compiling
> package-quickstart-file?  See the following emacs-devel thread and
> commit.
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2020-12/msg01080.html
>
> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: Byte compile the quickstart file
> eeade2b647 2020-12-18 10:02:15 -0500
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=eeade2b64767bfce9118eae36c25363a7fb6ea76

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Thanks,

--Raman
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