Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Eric Abrahamsen]

For several weeks, every time I update packages I get the error below.
Recently it seems to be raised once per package updated. Does anyone
know what might be causing this?


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#<")
  signal(invalid-read-syntax ("#<"))
  package--with-response-buffer-1("https://melpa.org/packages/" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x87891e2fe419da4>) :file "fountain-mode-20220223.1041.tar" :async nil :error-function #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_73> :noerror nil)
  package-install-from-archive(#s(package-desc :name fountain-mode :version (20220223 1041) :summary "Major mode for screenwriting in Fountain markup" :reqs ((emacs (24 4)) (seq (2 20))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "63f29cbd66b9a3d2ff11ff99b36d4d095638d084") (:authors ("Paul W. Rankin" . "pwr@bydasein.com")) (:maintainer "Paul W. Rankin" . "pwr@bydasein.com") (:keywords "wp" "text") (:url . "https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode")) :signed nil))
  package-download-transaction((#s(package-desc :name fountain-mode :version (20220223 1041) :summary "Major mode for screenwriting in Fountain markup" :reqs ((emacs (24 4)) (seq (2 20))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "63f29cbd66b9a3d2ff11ff99b36d4d095638d084") (:authors ("Paul W. Rankin" . "pwr@bydasein.com")) (:maintainer "Paul W. Rankin" . "pwr@bydasein.com") (:keywords "wp" "text") (:url . "https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode")) :signed nil)))
  package-install(#s(package-desc :name fountain-mode :version (20220223 1041) :summary "Major mode for screenwriting in Fountain markup" :reqs ((emacs (24 4)) (seq (2 20))) :kind tar :archive "melpa" :dir nil :extras ((:commit . "63f29cbd66b9a3d2ff11ff99b36d4d095638d084") (:authors ("Paul W. Rankin" . "pwr@bydasein.com")) (:maintainer "Paul W. Rankin" . "pwr@bydasein.com") (:keywords "wp" "text") (:url . "https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode")) :signed nil) dont-select)

Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> For several weeks, every time I update packages I get the error below.
> Recently it seems to be raised once per package updated. Does anyone
> know what might be causing this?
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#<")
>   signal(invalid-read-syntax ("#<"))

What's in the buffer when you get this?

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Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> For several weeks, every time I update packages I get the error below.
>> Recently it seems to be raised once per package updated. Does anyone
>> know what might be causing this?
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#<")
>>   signal(invalid-read-syntax ("#<"))
>
> What's in the buffer when you get this?

Which buffer do you mean? I see this when running an update from
*Packages*. I hit "U", it starts doing its thing, and then raises these
errors from the process sentinel. The actual update/installation seems
to succeed just fine, and it goes on to update/install the next package
successfully, usually followed by this error again.

Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Andreas Schwab]

See bug#53678.

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Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Which buffer do you mean?

Whatever buffer it's in.  :-)  Doing `e (current-buffer) RET' in the
right backtrace frame should tell you which buffer.

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Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> See bug#53678.

Ah! That does look like it, I'll watch that. Thanks for the pointer.

Re: Installing packages and (invalid-read-syntax "#<")

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Which buffer do you mean?
>
> Whatever buffer it's in.  :-)  Doing `e (current-buffer) RET' in the
> right backtrace frame should tell you which buffer.

Pretty sure it's the bug Andreas pointed out. I shut off
async-bytecomp-package-mode, uninstalled and re-installed a package, and
didn't see the error.