Re: Opendocument export causes error

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Achim is the one who made autoload changes.  I am not familiar with his
changes because I can jump the steps and get a working setup.

I am telling this upfront, because Achim and I may share different
instructions (which may amount to having the /same effect/) but if you
mix the instructions, you may end up being confused.  So stick to Achim
or my instructions.  My instructions are likely to be hackier.

>>   M-x locate-library RET org-install RET
>
> Library is file ~/emacs/org-mode/lisp/org-install.el
>
> (Note the *.el, it is not compiled)
>
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-autoloads RET
>
> No library org-autoloads in search path
>
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-loaddefs RET
>
> Library is file ~/emacs/org-mode/lisp/org-loaddefs.el
>
> (Again, no compiled file)
>
>>   (Try again the above commands with `.el' appended)
>
> It is always the same result as about.
>
>> Ideally your .emacs MUST have (require ') for only one of these
>> libraries.
>
> None of these libraries is actually loaded in ~/.emacs -- I recently
> commented out (require 'org-install) but some recent message from
> org-mode suggested to remove that. However, adding (require
> org-install) makes not difference.

1. Check the timestamps of org-install and org-loaddefs.  Were they
   created almost at the same time.
2. Does your vanilla emacs have a org-loaddefs in lisp/org directory.

Your init file scrutinized for errors.  In the latter part of the
E-mail, I share how you make sure that it is the init file that is in
error.  For now, scan your .emacs and convince yourself of the following
requirements.

In your .emacs,

    M-x occur RET org RET

The first occurrence of org in the *occur* buffer should be the line
that modifies the load-path.

The second occurrence should be that of your (require 'org-install) or
(require 'org-loaddefs)

You will also see lines from `customize-set-variables' block which you
may pretend doesn't exist.

There should be /no other/ references to org particularly (require
'org-whatever) statements.

Note down any deviations from this.

> Dear Jambunathan,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help and providing such detailed debugging
> suggestions. To summarise, after I loaded the *.el files with
> load-library as you suggested I got the Opendocument export
> working. However, I still do not understand why this is not working
> normally.

The problem is org-odt gets compiled on top of the wrong org-compat.
The org-compat in vanilla Emacs is wrong (for our purposes) while that
in your work-area is right.

> What now. As a hack I could put something in ~/.emacs that loads these
> libraries manually, but there is likely a better solution.
>
> I detail all debugging outputs below. Any suggestion where to go from
> here? Thanks a lot again!



I would like to understand what is happening.

Phase-1
=======

    1. Go to your vanilla Emacs directory.  Temporarily move your lisp/org
       to some other directory.  Let's say ~/vanilla-org/.  This way you are
       sure that there is no way the wrong org-compat.elc is getting in the
       way of you Org compilation in step 3.

    2. Go to your work area.

    3. Compile. make <whatever>.

    4. emacs -Q  (Note the -Q)

    5. (push load-path "~/your/org/checkout")

    6. M-x load-library RET org-odt RET

    7. Export to ODT.  It should succeed.

Phase-2
=======

1. Move back your ~/vanilla-org to lisp/org.  Restoring the old order.
2. Repeat steps 4-7 from Phase-1.
3. See whether export succeeds. 

       If failure, the bug is in your init file is broken and has to be
       scrutinized for correctness. 

       If success, I really cannot imagine what could possibly be broken
       in your setup.  Atleast you have a working setup with new order.

Phase-3
=======

I will share further instructions on debugging your init file, if
Phase-2, Step 3 resulted in a failure.

>>   M-x list-load-path-shadows RET
>
>
> Basically, subdirectories from two directories are loaded. One is the
> standard Emacs (in my case Aquamacs based on GNU Emacs 23.3.50.1 at
> /Applications/Mozart/Mozart.app/Contents/Resources/) and the other is
> my local emacs lisp directory at ~/emacs/.
>
> The full output is copied to the very end of this email.

Trailing part of directory names is truncated and I am having difficulty
making out what is in there.

But it doesn't matter for now.


>
> Any idea how to resolve this? Again thanks a lot! 
>
> Best,
> Torsten
>
>
>
>>   M-x load-library RET org-compat.el RET
>>   M-x load-library RET org-odt.el RET
>
> Debug (org-odt): Searching for OpenDocument styles files...
> Debug (org-odt): Trying /usr/share/emacs/etc/org/styles/... [2 times]
> Debug (org-odt): Trying /Users/torsten/emacs/org-mode/etc/styles/...
> Debug (org-odt): Using styles under /Users/torsten/emacs/org-mode/etc/styles/
> Loading /Users/torsten/emacs/org-mode/lisp/org-odt.el (source)...done
> Export buffer: 
> Export subtree: 
> Exporting to ODT using org-lparse...
> Using vacuous schema
> Loading reftex...done
> LaTeX to MathML converter not available. Using dvipng instead.
> Exporting...
> ODT export done, pushed to kill ring and clipboard
> Wrote /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/meta.xml
> Using vacuous schema
> Saving file
> /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/styles.xml...
> Wrote /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/styles.xml
> Wrote /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/mimetype
> Using vacuous schema
> Saving file
> /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/styles.xml...
> Wrote /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/styles.xml
> (No changes need to be saved)
> Saving file
> /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/META-INF/manifest.xml...
> Wrote
> /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/META-INF/manifest.xml
> Saving file
> /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/content.xml...
> Wrote /var/folders/Mc/Mc7BB2F3GxOLYJol0POQa++++TM/-Tmp-/odf-1712VN/content.xml
> Using vacuous schema
> (No changes need to be saved)
> Creating odt file...
> Running zip -mX0 MusicConstraintsBookProject.odt mimetype
> Running zip -rmTq MusicConstraintsBookProject.odt .
> Created
> /Users/torsten/texte/Bewerbungen/grant-applications/AHRC-application/MusicConstraintsBookProject.odt
> Parsing archive file...done.
> Opening file
> /Users/torsten/texte/Bewerbungen/grant-applications/AHRC-application/MusicConstraintsBookProject.odt
> Running open
> /Users/torsten/texte/Bewerbungen/grant-applications/AHRC-application/MusicConstraintsBookProject.odt...done
>
>
>
>>   M-x list-load-path-shadows RET
>
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>> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Opendocument export causes error
>> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
>> Date: 2012-12-01 06:52:14 GMT (10 hours and 27 minutes ago)
>> (Ignore my earlier mail.  Follow instruction in this mail instead.)
>> 
>> Symptoms tell me that you have a hoaxed installation.
>> 
>> Try this and see if it helps
>> 
>>   M-x list-load-path-shadows RET
>> 
>> Check where all org-odt.el is installed.  Ideally you should see only
>> two paths - one from vanilla Emacs and one from directory that you are
>> trying to use right now.
>> 
>> Try this next.
>> 
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-compat RET
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-odt RET 
>> 
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-compat.el RET
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-odt.el RET 
>> 
>>   (Note the presence of `.el' in later two commands)
>> 
>> They should all come from the same directory tree.
>> 
>> Try this next.
>> 
>>   M-x load-library RET org-compat.el RET
>>   M-x load-library RET org-odt.el RET
>> 
>>   (Order of loading should be preserved.  `.el' SHOULD be there)
>> 
>> Now export.  
>> 
>> Look inside your messages buffer and examine what all ODT exporter is
>> trying to do. 
>> 
>> In all likelihood, you will have a successful export.
>> 
>> For some more debugging, you can do,
>> 
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-install RET
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-autoloads RET
>>   M-x locate-library RET org-loaddefs RET
>> 
>>   (Try again the above commands with `.el' appended)
>> 
>> Ideally your .emacs MUST have (require ') for only one of these
>> libraries.
>> 
>> If you pass the censored logs from above commands then I or someone in
>> this list can guess what is possibly wrong.  But my guess is above steps
>> should suffice to figure out the remedy.
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> Since a while I cannot export to OpenDocument anymore. Instead, I
>>> always get the error
>>> 
>>> call-interactively: Symbol's value as variable is void: err
>>> 
>>> I just updated to Org-mode version 7.9.2 and the problem persists. In
>>> the archives I found exactly the same problem mentioned (messages from
>>> 11.07.2012 with subject Compile error in org-odt.el in latest master),
>>> but I do not understand the solution found then (Rainer Stengele
>>> reported that he "missed the unzip.exe and now it works").
>>> 
>>> Any help? Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Torsten
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dr Torsten Anders
>>> Course Leader, Music Technology
>>> University of Bedfordshire
>>> Park Square, Room A315
>>> 
>> http://www.torsten-anders.de
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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