This bug report will be sent to the Bug-GNU-Emacs mailing list and the GNU bug tracker at debbugs.gnu.org. Please check that the From: line contains a valid email address. After a delay of up to one day, you should receive an acknowledgment at that address. Please write in English if possible, as the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators for other languages. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': M-x package-install RET js2-mode RET gives js2-mode-pkg.el:2:1:Warning: `"languages"' is a malformed function after creating this js2-mode-pkg.el: ;; Generated package description from js2-mode.el (define-package "js2-mode" "20140114" "Improved JavaScript editing mode" '((emacs "24.1")) :url "https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/" :keywords ("languages" "javascript")) which e.g. leads to errors on next emacs startup. Adding a ' before the keywords list (and deleting the .elc) is a workaround. I don't see the error in js2-mode.el that would cause this: $ head -13 js2-mode.el ;;; js2-mode.el --- Improved JavaScript editing mode ;; Copyright (C) 2009, 2011-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Steve Yegge ;; mooz ;; Dmitry Gutov ;; URL: https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/ ;; http://code.google.com/p/js2-mode/ ;; Version: 20140114 ;; Keywords: languages, javascript ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24.1")) but in any case, 'package should probably handle this better. In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars) of 2013-08-15 on kiwiarch Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11403000 Configured using: `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--with-xft' '--without-gconf' '--without-gsettings' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LANG: nn_NO.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default enable-multibyte-characters: t -- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer GPG: 0x766AC60C