cider-jack-in failing with "Symbol’s function definition is void: sesman-linked-sessions"

[rr326]

Expected behavior

Cider runs

Actual behavior

I am getting the following error when trying to jack in to Cider: "Symbol’s function definition is void: sesman-linked-sessions"

This looks the same as #2491 (which was closed as fixed)

Steps to reproduce the problem

I'm a total emacs noob so may be doing something wrong. I'm following the instructions in this book.

Environment & Version information

CIDER version information

I can't get CIDER to launch but I think this is the latest stable install.

Lein/Boot version

Leiningen 2.9.1 on Java 11

Emacs version

emacs 26.3 , buidl 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0

Operating system

Darwin / MacOS 10.14.6

[rr326]

For completeness, below is the init.el which may provide some clues.

;;;;
;; Packages
;;;;

;; Define package repositories
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("tromey" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)

(add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(cider . "melpa-stable") t)
(add-to-list 'package-pinned-packages '(magit . "melpa-stable") t)


;; Load and activate emacs packages. Do this first so that the
;; packages are loaded before you start trying to modify them.
;; This also sets the load path.
(package-initialize)

;; Download the ELPA archive description if needed.
;; This informs Emacs about the latest versions of all packages, and
;; makes them available for download.
(when (not package-archive-contents)
  (package-refresh-contents))

;; Define he following variables to remove the compile-log warnings
;; when defining ido-ubiquitous
;; (defvar ido-cur-item nil)
;; (defvar ido-default-item nil)
;; (defvar ido-cur-list nil)
;; (defvar predicate nil)
;; (defvar inherit-input-method nil)

;; The packages you want installed. You can also install these
;; manually with M-x package-install
;; Add in your own as you wish:
(defvar my-packages
  '(;; makes handling lisp expressions much, much easier
    ;; Cheatsheet: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet
    paredit

    ;; key bindings and code colorization for Clojure
    ;; https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clojure-mode
    clojure-mode

    ;; extra syntax highlighting for clojure
    clojure-mode-extra-font-locking

    ;; integration with a Clojure REPL
    ;; https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider
    cider

    ;; allow ido usage in as many contexts as possible. see
    ;; customizations/navigation.el line 23 for a description
    ;; of ido
    ido-completing-read+

    ;; Enhances M-x to allow easier execution of commands. Provides
    ;; a filterable list of possible commands in the minibuffer
    ;; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Smex
    smex

    ;; project navigation
    projectile

    ;; colorful parenthesis matching
    rainbow-delimiters

    ;; edit html tags like sexps
    tagedit

    ;; git integration
    magit))

;; On OS X, an Emacs instance started from the graphical user
;; interface will have a different environment than a shell in a
;; terminal window, because OS X does not run a shell during the
;; login. Obviously this will lead to unexpected results when
;; calling external utilities like make from Emacs.
;; This library works around this problem by copying important
;; environment variables from the user's shell.
;; https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell
(if (eq system-type 'darwin)
    (add-to-list 'my-packages 'exec-path-from-shell))

(dolist (p my-packages)
  (when (not (package-installed-p p))
    (package-install p)))


;; Place downloaded elisp files in ~/.emacs.d/vendor. You'll then be able
;; to load them.
;;
;; For example, if you download yaml-mode.el to ~/.emacs.d/vendor,
;; then you can add the following code to this file:
;;
;; (require 'yaml-mode)
;; (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.yml$" . yaml-mode))
;; 
;; Adding this code will make Emacs enter yaml mode whenever you open
;; a .yml file
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/vendor")


;;;;
;; Customization
;;;;

;; Add a directory to our load path so that when you `load` things
;; below, Emacs knows where to look for the corresponding file.
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/customizations")

;; Sets up exec-path-from-shell so that Emacs will use the correct
;; environment variables
(load "shell-integration.el")

;; These customizations make it easier for you to navigate files,
;; switch buffers, and choose options from the minibuffer.
(load "navigation.el")

;; These customizations change the way emacs looks and disable/enable
;; some user interface elements
(load "ui.el")

;; These customizations make editing a bit nicer.
(load "editing.el")

;; Hard-to-categorize customizations
(load "misc.el")

;; For editing lisps
(load "elisp-editing.el")

;; Langauage-specific
(load "setup-clojure.el")
(load "setup-js.el")
(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(coffee-tab-width 2)
 '(package-selected-packages
   (quote
    (magit tagedit rainbow-delimiters projectile smex ido-completing-read+ cider clojure-mode-extra-font-locking clojure-mode paredit exec-path-from-shell))))
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )

[dpsutton]

A few things to check:

• did you clone the repo from brave? I think i remember seeing compiled .elc files in there.
• check ~/.emacs.d/elpa for a CIDER directory. You should see a sesman directory as well. If not, delete the CIDER folder and then restart emacs. It should grab all of its dependencies and work out.
• I see you (load "setup-clojure.el") Can you give the contents of that file? Perhaps you're doing something strange in there?

[rr326]

@dpsutton You got it. Brave (the repo / book I'm following) had a setup which included the cider directory, and it was pinned at an earlier (v20) version. I'll contact the author.

Thanks for your help.