Emacs will not start after attempting to setup helm/async packages

[SunilM]

emacs: GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.19) of 2017-09-14

OS: Fedora 26

Was trying to solve a python mode problem by installing helm/async. Not the problems are worse.

After building helm and async according to project web page.

Getting a startup error and therefore commented out the config lines for helm and async.

Emacs still does not start with the following error!

I dont understand why emacs is still trying to load helm and async when i have commented the helm/async config lines in .emacs !!!

One of the semantic cache files still has :             ("helm-config" include nil nil [11627 11649])

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async/async-autoloads")

  load("/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async/async-autoloads" nil t)

  package--activate-autoloads-and-load-path([cl-struct-package-desc async (1 9) "Asynchronous processing in Emacs" nil nil nil "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async" ((:keywords "async") (:url . "https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async")) nil])

  package--load-files-for-activation([cl-struct-package-desc async (1 9) "Asynchronous processing in Emacs" nil nil nil "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async" ((:keywords "async") (:url . "https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async")) nil] nil)

  package-activate-1([cl-struct-package-desc async (1 9) "Asynchronous processing in Emacs" nil nil nil "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async" ((:keywords "async") (:url . "https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async")) nil] nil deps)

  package-activate(async)

  package-activate-1([cl-struct-package-desc helm (2 8 5) "Helm is an Emacs incremental and narrowing framework" ((emacs (24 4)) (async (1 9 2)) (popup (0 5 3)) (helm-core (2 8 5))) nil nil "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/helm" ((:url . "https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/")) nil] nil deps)

  package-activate(helm)

  package-initialize()

  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/sunil/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 841

  load-with-code-conversion("/home/sunil/.emacs" "/home/sunil/.emacs" t t)

  load("~/.emacs" t t)

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  command-line()

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Looks a problem with your installation, verify async package is really
installed and use its Melpa version, not the Elpa version (use package-pinned-packages).
Once done use .emacs-helm.sh to see if all work.

SunilM <sellp...@gmail.com> writes:

> I dont understand why emacs is still trying to load helm and async
> when i have commented the helm/async config lines in .emacs !!!

Because package-initialize try to load all packages that are in your
elpa directory.

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "No
> such file or directory"
> "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async/async-autoloads")

The name of the package should not be "async" but something like "async-2017-xx-xx".


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Thierry

[SunilM]

On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 2:43:04 AM UTC-4, thierry v wrote:

Looks a problem with your installation, verify async package is really
installed and use its Melpa version, not the Elpa version (use package-pinned-packages).
Once done use .emacs-helm.sh to see if all work.

SunilM <sellp...@gmail.com> writes:

> I dont understand why emacs is still trying to load helm and async
> when i have commented the helm/async config lines in .emacs !!!  

Because package-initialize try to load all packages that are in your
elpa directory.

Thanks! Didnt know this. Renamed dirs in elpa directory and emacs is working again.

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "No
> such file or directory"
> "/home/sunil/.emacs.d/elpa/async/async-autoloads")

The name of the package should not be "async" but something like "async-2017-xx-xx".

Any idea on what it should be exactly ? the instructions on page https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm dont specify a format for the async dir.

 

 Also, the README in async doesnt really specify any to install into any specific directory structure/name.

So as to your explanation above, I removed helm and async dirs from under elpa and back to normal.

Excellent! Thanks.

Normal being all modes except one work: C++. perl, shell modes work as usual.

Python mode doesnt work, which is what i was trying to install helm and async to rectify.

But at least emacs is back and its alive!

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Thierry

[Thierry Volpiatto]

SunilM <sellp...@gmail.com> writes:

>> The name of the package should not be "async" but something like "async-2017-xx-xx".
> Any idea on what it should be exactly ? the instructions on

> pagehttps://emacs-helm.github.io/helm dont specify a format for the
> async dir.

You don't have to modify the directory names yourself in your Elpa
directory, package.el does that for you.

Read https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/wiki/FAQ#errors-when-running-make

Also be sure to install async from Melpa and not Elpa which is outdated.
Use for this:

(setq package-pinned-packages '((async . "melpa")))

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Thierry