From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jorgen Schaefer <contact@jorgenschaefer.de>
Cc: 20355@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20355: 25.0.50; Package installation fails without a fully loaded init file
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:29:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh9scrgwr.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wq1bnm7x.fsf@loki.jorgenschaefer.de> (Jorgen Schaefer's message of "Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:22:10 +0200")
> I recently accidentally uninstalled a package required by my init.el.
> The result was that starting Emacs failed. I then could not install the
> package again, though, as package-install failed with an error "the init
> file was not fully loaded". I suspect the latter is from the attempt to
> set `package-selected-packages'. The same error happened when I started
> Emacs with -q.
Hmm... could you give a slightly more detailed recipe. I think
package.el does not degrade gracefully enough in such "inconsistent"
states, indeed.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-19 2:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-17 9:22 bug#20355: 25.0.50; Package installation fails without a fully loaded init file Jorgen Schaefer
2015-04-19 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-04-19 8:51 ` Jorgen Schäfer
2015-04-19 14:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-20 14:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-22 10:57 ` Artur Malabarba
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