Re: load-path weirdness for package installs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:01:17 +0530
> 
> I've started to use the Emacs package manager for all my package
> installs that go into .Emacs.d.  However every once in a while, a
> package fails to load and I have to explicitly hardcode the path to
> the elpa directory.
> 
> I have no idea why it happens.  Case in point
> 
> (push "c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/mic-paren-3.8" load-path)
> (require 'mic-paren) ; loading
> (paren-activate)     ; activating
> 
> C-h v load-path shows that the path is already there (elided the list
> a bit)
> 
> ("c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/all-1.0/" "c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.88.1/"... "c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/mic-paren-3.8/" ... "c:/gnu/elisp/org-mode/lisp/" "c:/Users/ADMIN/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpa/mic-paren-3.8" ...)
> 
> This is on a win 7 Emacs build.  And the issue also appears on debian
> wheezy backport of emacs24.4

Show a backtrace when it fails, then perhaps someone might have an
idea.  So far you just described a strange failure, but show no
evidence that can be used to try to figure out what might go wrong.

Btw, does "once in a while" mean that this fails with some specific
packages, or does it mean that the same package sometimes loads and
sometimes doesn't?