Error running timer

[kb01]

Hello,

I'm getting the following errors whenever trying to include some headers on my C code:

"Error running timer 'ac-show-menu': (wrong-type-argument processp nil)"
"Error running timer 'ac-update-greedy': (wrong-type-argument processp nil)"

I'm using emacs 25.0.92.1, and currently unable to solve this issue.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

[kb01]

Note: this issue doesn't only cover the C headers, but also any attempt for auto-completing any other input from the user.

BTW I'm using auto-complete-20160416.604.

[YorkZ]

I also have the exact same problem from time to time.

[syohex]

Could you show us sample code for reproducing this issue and tell us how to reproduce it in detail ?

[kb01]

@syohex

[syohex]

I cannot reproduce this issue.

• Please disable all other minor modes. (It looks you enable flycheck, yasnippet, ggtags etc)
• Please reinstall auto-complete and byte-compile again.
• Please use stable version or latest pretest version because your emacs version is little old.

[kb01]

@syohex I tried all what you recommended, but it didn't solve anything either.

[syohex]

Could you show us minimum configuration for reproduce this issue ?

[kb01]

@syohex:

(setq inhibit-splash-screen t)
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))
(package-initialize)

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa")
(require 'auto-complete-config)
(ac-config-default)

(defun my:ac-c-header-init ()
  (require 'auto-complete-c-headers)
  (add-to-list 'ac-sources 'ac-source-c-headers))
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'my:ac-c-header-init)
(add-hook 'c-mode-hook 'my:ac-c-header-init)

;; Make a non-standard key binding.  We can put this in
;; c-mode-base-map because c-mode-map, c++-mode-map, and so on,
;; inherit from it.
(defun my-c-initialization-hook ()
  (define-key c-mode-base-map "\C-m" 'c-context-line-break))
(add-hook 'c-initialization-hook 'my-c-initialization-hook)

;; offset customizations not in my-c-style
;; This will take precedence over any setting of the syntactic symbol
;; made by a style.
(setq c-offsets-alist '((member-init-intro . ++)))

;; Create my personal style.
(defconst my-c-style
  '((c-tab-always-indent        . t)
    (c-comment-only-line-offset . 4)
    (c-hanging-braces-alist     . ((substatement-open after)
                                   (brace-list-open)))
    (c-hanging-colons-alist     . ((member-init-intro before)
                                   (inher-intro)
                                   (case-label after)
                                   (label after)
                                   (access-label after)))
    (c-cleanup-list             . (scope-operator
                                   empty-defun-braces
                                   defun-close-semi))
    (c-offsets-alist            . ((arglist-close . c-lineup-arglist)
                                   (substatement-open . 0)
                                   (case-label        . 4)
                                   (block-open        . 0)
                                   (knr-argdecl-intro . -)))
    (c-echo-syntactic-information-p . t))
  "My C Programming Style")
(c-add-style "PERSONAL" my-c-style)

;; Customizations for all modes in CC Mode.
(defun my-c-mode-common-hook ()
  ;; set my personal style for the current buffer
  (c-set-style "PERSONAL")
  ;; other customizations
  (setq tab-width 8
        ;; this will make sure spaces are used instead of tabs
        indent-tabs-mode nil)
  ;; we like auto-newline, but not hungry-delete
  (c-toggle-auto-newline 1))
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'my-c-mode-common-hook)

(defun my-ac-config ()
  (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'ac-cc-mode-setup)
  (add-hook 'auto-complete-mode-hook 'ac-common-setup)
  (global-auto-complete-mode t))

(my-ac-config)

[syohex]

Sorry late reply.
But I cannot reproduce this issue with your configuration on Emacs 25.0.93.1 and development version.

[kb01]

@syohex Humm.. That seems little-bit odd.

But there is obviously a bug somewhere, since @YorkZ has pointed out above, that he is encountering the same issue as mine.

Could it be an OS-specific bug, then? (Note: I'm using Arch distro, and my emacs version is 25.0.93.1 BTW.)

Thank you.

[kb01]

emacs --debug

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "No such file or directory" "/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/auto-complete-1.5.1/auto-complete-autoloads")
  load("/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/auto-complete-1.5.1/auto-complete-autoloads" nil t)
  package--activate-autoloads-and-load-path([cl-struct-package-desc auto-complete (1 5 0) "Auto Completion for GNU Emacs" ((popup (0 5 0)) (cl-lib (0 5))) nil nil "/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/auto-complete-1.5.1" nil nil])
  package--load-files-for-activation([cl-struct-package-desc auto-complete (1 5 0) "Auto Completion for GNU Emacs" ((popup (0 5 0)) (cl-lib (0 5))) nil nil "/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/auto-complete-1.5.1" nil nil] nil)
  package-activate-1([cl-struct-package-desc auto-complete (1 5 0) "Auto Completion for GNU Emacs" ((popup (0 5 0)) (cl-lib (0 5))) nil nil "/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/auto-complete-1.5.1" nil nil] nil deps)
  package-activate(auto-complete)
  package-activate-1([cl-struct-package-desc plsense (20151104 645) "provide interface for PlSense that is a development tool for Perl." ((auto-complete (1 4 0)) (log4e (0 2 0)) (yaxception (0 2 0))) nil nil "/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/plsense-20151104.645" ((:keywords "perl" "completion") (:url . "https://github.com/aki2o/emacs-plsense")) nil] nil deps)
  package-activate(plsense)
  package-activate-1([cl-struct-package-desc plsense-direx (20140520 1308) "Perl Package Explorer" ((direx (0 1 -3)) (plsense (0 3 2)) (log4e (0 2 0)) (yaxception (0 3 2))) nil nil "/home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/plsense-direx-20140520.1308" ((:keywords "perl" "convenience") (:url . "https://github.com/aki2o/plsense-direx")) nil] nil deps)
  package-activate(plsense-direx)
  package-initialize()
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/kb01/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 184
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/kb01/.emacs" "/home/kb01/.emacs" t t)
  load("~/.emacs" t t)
  #[0 "�\205\266

Note: Plsense minor-modes are kept disabled on .emacs file.

[syohex]

Could you reinstall auto-complete(remove and install again) ?

[kb01]

@syohex I tried re-installing + upgrading other packages as-well.

Now everything works great, and my issue is solved!

However, I'm little-bit curious about the following error I got during the upgrades:

Compiling /home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-20160510.1127/dash.el...done
Wrote /home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-20160510.1127/dash.elc
Checking /home/kb01/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-20160510.1127...
Done (Total of 1 file compiled, 2 skipped)
Contacting host: melpa.milkbox.net:80 [2 times]
Parsing tar file...
Warning: premature EOF parsing tar file
package-untar-buffer: Package does not untar cleanly into directory auto-complete-20160416.604/

So, what does this error suggests?

Thank you.

[syohex]

Sorry, I'm not sure. Network issue ? Please try again after some hours.

[davidgomes]

I am getting this error on Emacs 25.1 as well. Consistently every time I try to auto complete.

Error running timer ‘ac-update-greedy’: (wrong-number-of-arguments setq 1) [2 times]
Error running timer ‘ac-show-menu’: (wrong-number-of-arguments setq 1)
Error running timer ‘ac-update-greedy’: (wrong-number-of-arguments setq 1) [2 times]

I have tried both auto-complete v1.5.1 and auto-complete 20160827.649 and I get the same error in both of them.

[syohex]

setq issue was already fixed at #424. Did you have old byte-compiled file ?

[davidgomes]

My issue was that I had a very old auto-complete.el file in my local Lisp folder. Sorry for bothering.

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/")

It has indeed been fixed.

[jcs090218]

@kb01 Does this issue goes away after reinstalling it? 😖 Thanks!