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25.0.50; Package installation fails without a fully loaded init file |
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Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:22:10 +0200 |
Hello!
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.
I would expect to be able to install packages without error if I start
Emacs with -q, or indeed if my init file breaks.
Thanks!
Jorgen
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Re: bug#20355: 25.0.50; Package installation fails without a fully loaded init file |
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Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:57:04 +0100 |
Fixed.
2015-04-20 15:21 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
>> 1. This can be solved by wrapping the call to
>> `customize-save-variable' in a `ignore-errors'.
>> 2. This can also be fixed entirely in custom.el by having
>> `(custom-file t)' return nil when `(and (null custom-file)
>> init-file-had-error)'.
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>> Arguably, the latter is the right thing to do (that function should
>> not pretend that all is fine if init-file-had-error), but I don't know
>> whether that could cause issues in other places.
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> I think there's only one way to find out.
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> Stefan
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