From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax: ")" Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 20:55:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83d0y7qriv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <19BA809B-9E7D-409D-95B3-BE016E3A24DD@gmail.com> <87k1sh4dya.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <4d91573f-0a6f-46f8-9497-e3febfb3b89c@default> <248C0FF3-87D2-434A-8478-F2E0A8EFC852@gmail.com> <23633633-FBDD-48DB-BC57-44E2007B9215@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525715655 6483 195.159.176.226 (7 May 2018 17:54:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 17:54:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 19:54:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fFkKu-0001Ym-Ss for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2018 19:54:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47435 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFkN2-0002oU-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2018 13:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFkMe-0002nX-9j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2018 13:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFkMb-0004nR-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2018 13:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFkMb-0004nA-21 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2018 13:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4916 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fFkMZ-0005wX-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2018 13:55:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <23633633-FBDD-48DB-BC57-44E2007B9215@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Mon, 7 May 2018 12:54:11 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116680 Archived-At: > From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 12:54:11 +0900 > > > You said you could get the error with M-x eval-buffer, right? Perhaps > > just doing M-x toggle-debug-on-error before that will get the > > backtrace (which should include the buffer position of the offending > > ")"). > > > The problematic "region" is: > > (require 'package) > > Weird, right ? Crystal ball says that you are using a fontconfig version that resets LC_NUMERIC when Emacs doesn't expect. See bug#30788. You didn't say what version of Emacs are you using, but if it doesn't include the fix for that problem, that's the most probable reason.