From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Cross Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: ELPA Issues? Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:30:03 +1000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334565417 2215 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2012 08:36:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:36:57 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 10:36:56 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SJhQe-0002q9-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:36:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJhQd-00035T-SS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJhQW-00034y-Vm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJhQS-000521-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:54353) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJhQR-00051c-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: by obbeh20 with SMTP id eh20so1500041obb.0 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:36:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=wujKQB0H7xtLx6Uw+vOEFnZnkHEeNvT5gJ2g4PFg3+8=; b=mGambCyg+3dLb0kxVs7j8mk/iebvFZQwgoVQwzv5CGWuhq2HWznW5VctSUpuPDSImw Go4GiNbNnfascZlDbymkaqJza1KQUAYWaFsQ7vOuUH17wLNKTqYXMg9X1ccBLNbrIUYm z5Qr197bjKYTskg3ksUZNeW+LyOpUGKQLAQXfYYB5rSmTEfDw5vp/Uu/lmytziMmUsCa yMUJ31GhchLArGZF7hozcF4rQHxuUFNpZGKkiSafKq1zL2XEwWY7q/qNmMTu5KJMhf7y ILYan7wqil4/EF8KFz6vEdIGERoGSzI+7OHSwEyOgBd+sTQRKFyC/LemD7gmDFsSPEOX vypw== Original-Received: by 10.60.11.166 with SMTP id r6mr14483338oeb.2.1334565003970; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.182.75.162 with HTTP; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:30:03 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149688 Archived-At: Is there a problem with the ELPA archive site at present? Emacs version form today ("107918 eggert@cs.ucla.edu-20120416011813-5owp5impbhuv3w02") emacs -Q m-x list-packages shows package listing with message "Failed to download 'gnu' archive However, if you are like me an often have debug on error enabled, you get the backtrace Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Trying to parse HTTP response code in odd buffer: *http elpa.gnu.org:80*<2>") signal(error ("Trying to parse HTTP response code in odd buffer: *http elpa.gnu.org:80*<2>")) error("Trying to parse HTTP response code in odd buffer: %s" " *http elpa.gnu.org:80*<2>") url-http-parse-response() package-handle-response() package--download-one-archive(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") "archive-contents") #[nil "\30\302\"\207" [archive package--download-one-archive "archive-contents"] 3]() package-refresh-contents() list-packages(nil) call-interactively(list-packages t nil) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) It strikes me that this error message is not very helpful. It took a bit of time before I was able to work out there was some issue with downloading the archive, but even now I'm not clear on exactly what/why there is an issue. Thought it might be worth a bug report, but wanted to see what the status of the elpa archive site was as this make a difference between a bug report concerning error handling/reporting and a bug report of some deeper issue witht he list-packages functionality. Tim -- Tim Cross