Re: "Package refresh is already in progress, please wait..."

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

> On Jan 19, 2020, at 0:32, Amin Bandali <mab@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Pankaj Jangid <p4j@j4d.net> writes:
> 
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
>> writes:
>> 
>>> It looks like emacs does not properly handle package refreshes when
>>> the internet connection has been killed in the middle of an refresh.
>>> 
>>> I often get this message in that case and I can't call package until I
>>> actually kill emacs and restart it.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to kill that zombie refresh process so that I can
>>> launch another one ?
>> 
>> I face this issue very often. Especially when the internet connection is slow.
> 
> I haven’t tried this (I don’t currently use package.el), but the process
> should appear in M-x list-processes RET.  If it does, you can kill it by
> putting the point on the corresponding line and pressing ‘d’.

Thank you very much.

There were indeed package.el related processes. But killing them did not change the behavior.

When I try package-list-package, I still get the error message above.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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