From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:26:27 +1000 Message-ID: <41FB39D3-F442-4B60-AE2F-C4334F942882@scratch.space> References: <75EF353C-4BEF-469B-BFD3-6288F230E1F1@scratch.space> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="258047"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Nicky Chorley Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 25 12:28:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hfigL-0014wG-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:28:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58488 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfigK-0001Ws-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfif8-0007nO-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:26:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfif6-0000XG-SY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.194]:54247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfif6-0000Lf-Kv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:26:52 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 110.174.240.215 Original-Received: from epi.local (110-174-240-215.static.tpgi.com.au [110.174.240.215]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay2-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1E6DF4000A; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 10:26:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.194 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:121040 Archived-At: > On 25 Jun 2019, at 05:00, Nicky Chorley = wrote: >=20 > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 09:14, VanL wrote: >> You could try renaming your .emacs file and .emac.d directory so that = they won't be used. Then see if you are able to install the 'which-key' = package on Emacs 26.1 or 26.2 or 27. >=20 > I've gone through various iterations of removing those and renaming > them and that hasn't helped in any case :(. Still can't install > packages. I was able to install which-key and hyperbole from the gnu-package = source but org on 26.1/openbsd-6.5 stopped unexpectedly and I had to use = the org-package source directly. On 26.2/netbsd8.1 I can't update the package list. The final message = says 'error in process sentinel: End of file during parsing' and the = *Messages* buffer says... and this is possibly due to inconsistency in = the pkgsrc versions of components yoyoing between 8.0 and 8.1 and = experimental current. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Importing package-keyring.gpg...done error in process sentinel: Error retrieving: = https://melpa.org/packages/archive-contents "incomprehensible buffer" [2 = times] error in process sentinel: End of file during parsing [2 times] Updating buffer list...done --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- You may want to look in *Messages* buffer for clues. >> There are different ways to load packages. You could try a different = way by following a techtube howto guide. >=20 > I've found out about el-get, straight.el and others, so I'll give one > of them a go. One mechanism I might try is 'use-package'.