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Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q

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From: "Eric S. Londres" <EricLondres <at> outlook.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:11:24 -0500

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Recipe:
emacs -Q
M-x package-list-packages

error is printed: "wrong type argument: stringp treemacs"

When run with debug-on-error, the trace looks like this:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp treemacs)
  intern(treemacs)
  package-desc-from-define(treemacs "20201218.652" "A tree style file 
explorer package" '((emacs "25.2") (cl-lib "0.5") (dash "2.11.0") (s 
"1.12.0") (f "0.11.0") (ace-window "0.9.0") (pfuture "1.7") (hydra 
"0.13.2") (ht "2.2")) :commit "6b045fd585421ab3c9e1185c2508d34af700490b" 
:authors (("Alexander Miller" . "alexanderm <at> web.de")) :maintainer 
("Alexander Miller" . "alexanderm <at> web.de") :url 
"https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs")
  apply(package-desc-from-define (treemacs "20201218.652" "A tree style 
file explorer package" '((emacs "25.2") (cl-lib "0.5") (dash "2.11.0") 
(s "1.12.0") (f "0.11.0") (ace-window "0.9.0") (pfuture "1.7") (hydra 
"0.13.2") (ht "2.2")) :commit "6b045fd585421ab3c9e1185c2508d34af700490b" 
:authors (("Alexander Miller" . "alexanderm <at> web.de")) :maintainer 
("Alexander Miller" . "alexanderm <at> web.de") :url 
"https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs"))
  package-process-define-package((define-package treemacs 
"20201218.652" "A tree style file explorer package" '((emacs "25.2") 
(cl-lib "0.5") (dash "2.11.0") (s "1.12.0") (f "0.11.0") (ace-window 
"0.9.0") (pfuture "1.7") (hydra "0.13.2") (ht "2.2")) :commit 
"6b045fd585421ab3c9e1185c2508d34af700490b" :authors (("Alexander Miller" 
. "alexanderm <at> web.de")) :maintainer ("Alexander Miller" . 
"alexanderm <at> web.de") :url "https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs"))
package-load-descriptor("/home/eric/.emacs.d/elpa/treemacs-20201218.652")
  package-load-all-descriptors()
  package-initialize(t)
  package-list-packages()
  eval((package-list-packages) t)
  ielm-eval-input(#("(package-list-packages)" 0 23 (fontified t)) nil)
  ielm-send-input(nil)
  ielm-return()
  funcall-interactively(ielm-return)
  call-interactively(ielm-return nil nil)
  command-execute(ielm-return)

I have (package-initialize) in my init file so running without emacs -Q 
or -q just prints "wrong type arguement: stringp treemacs" to the 
console and exits. Running with --debug-init does not produce any other 
output.

In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, 
cairo version 1.17.3)
 of 2020-08-28 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12010000
System Description: Arch Linux

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
package-desc-from-define: Wrong type argument: stringp, treemacs
delete-backward-char: Text is read-only

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-wide-int
 --with-modules --with-cairo --with-harfbuzz 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64
 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON
PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies
mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail
rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils finder-inf
package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq
eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map
url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib
tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode
lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian
utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean
japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray
cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind
inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 63942 11613)
 (symbols 48 7861 1)
 (strings 32 22240 1754)
 (string-bytes 1 705414)
 (vectors 16 13131)
 (vector-slots 8 164344 13722)
 (floats 8 21 27)
 (intervals 56 201 0)
 (buffers 1000 11))

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Message #8 received at 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "Eric S. Londres" <EricLondres <at> outlook.com>, 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#45415: Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:26:32 -0800 (PST)

https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/7312

Message #11 received at 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "Eric S. Londres" <EricLondres <at> outlook.com>, 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45415: Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 06:49:50 +0100

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/7312

"Cannot update packages, because the generated -pkg.el file uses a
symbol instead of a string"

So this seems to be an error in Melpa?  So I'm closing this bug report
in the Emacs bug tracker.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #16 received at 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: "Eric S. Londres" <EricLondres <at> outlook.com>, 45415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45415: Error in package-initialize; persists in emacs -Q
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 07:01:10 +0100

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/7312

For the record: this means that Emacs might fail to start.  Mine didn't
even get far enough to open the first X frame.  One needs to start with
-q.

Then I had to edit the package descriptions of all packages I had tried
to upgrade by hand.  In ~/.emacs.d/elpa for any package directory of any
package "foo", in the directory of "foo" I needed to change the first
line of the file "foo-pkg.el":

(define-package foo ...

to

(define-package "foo" ...

to make package initialization succeed again.


HTH,

Michael.

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