Re: error with cache

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

"Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I use Emacs as my window manager (exwm).  I don't often restart as my
> system is up 24/7.  Today, I had to restart and found Emacs hanging
> during startup.  I added a debug on quit directive so I could see why.
> The backtrace looks like this:
> ...
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
>   org-element--cache-active-p()
>   org-element--parse-to(211)
>   org-element-cache-map(#f(compiled-function (el) #<bytecode 0x14123237c7f8dc4b>) :next-re "\\<DEADLINE: *<\\([^>]+[0-9]\\{1,2\\}:[0-9]\\{2\\}[0-9+:hdwmy/ \11.-]*\\)>" :fail-re "\\<DEADLINE: *<\\([^>]+[0-9]\\{1,2\\}:[0-9]\\{2\\}[0-9+:hdwmy/ \11.-]*\\)>" :narrow t)
> ...
> Asking Emacs to continue keeps it in an infinite loop of some sort.
> Hitting C-g brings up a similar backtrace varying only in the argument
> to org-element--parse-to.  Repeat ad nauseam.
> ...
> I've removed the offending org file from the agenda list as my lectures
> have finished so I don't need it and problem averted.  But I'm curious
> to know what I could do in such a situation, should it arise again; I do
> have two other agenda files that are also automatically generated.

This sounds like https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/875xwbq6mb.fsf@localhost/

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