`(arrayp nil)` error while installing packages from codeberg.org (like undo-fu and git-timemachine)

[NicholasNagy]

What did you expect to happen?

I expected to follow the installation instructions for doom and for it to install properly.

What actually happened?

The actual resulting output:

Here is the backtrace that the error points to.
backtrace.zip

If you would like the backtrace to the other packages that failed to install, I can include those as well.

Describe your attempts to resolve the issue

As a bit of background, I am running all this in WSL. I wanted to get Emacs and doom running on my PC, so the first thing I did was compile Emacs 28.1 in WSL Ubuntu-20.04. I followed the instructions for Emacs 28.1, and got that installed and running, now my next endeavor was running Doom.
However, during the doom install process, I would get this error for the installation of the emacs-undo-fu (if I would re-run and emacs-undo-fu-session, and then git-timemachine, if I re-ran again). Not knowing better, I re-ran the command over and over until doom seemed to have no errors, but it is clear that these packages weren't installed correctly:

So I keep getting those errors, since I believe these packages weren't installed properly.

Next, I found this document: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/docs/getting_started.org#with-wsl--ubuntu-1804-lts
in the doom documentation, so I followed that to install Emacs 27.1 in WSL Ubuntu-18.04, and then I followed the guide once more, and I still run into the same issues when running doom install.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Emacs version 27.1 or 28.1 on either WSL Ubuntu-18.04 or WSL Ubuntu-20.04
2. follow instructions to install doom emacs (git clone to ~/.emacs.d && ~/.emacs.d/doom install)
3. Should be reproduced.

I am curious to see if this behavior is also seen when installed on native linux. If it is not reproducible on Linux, then it may be a WSL + Windows only bug, unfortunately.

System Information

https://pastebin.com/e2u0Fhdv

[oacar]

I had same issue and this could be duplicate of #5207 .

#5207 (comment) resolved it for me.

[worzeel]

yep, i am also seeing the above behaviour with WSL2.

I did the #5207 (comment) to get it installed... however, I also get those errors showing when running emacs ("Error running hook "undo-fu-mode" etc etc)

[NicholasNagy]

yep, i am also seeing the above behaviour with WSL2.

I did the #5207 (comment) to get it installed... however, I also get those errors showing when running emacs ("Error running hook "undo-fu-mode" etc etc)

Yeah, exactly, that's my main issue, because I can get it installed as well, but it seems like certain packages aren't installed properly, which is why we are getting that error.

I'm curious to know if it's a WSL2-only issue.

[aniiefsh]

I have the same issue on WSL1 (error installing and then Error running hook). Current workaround is to disable the undo module in init.el.

[llllbarcodellllllllll]

Same issue with installer on macOS.

[hlissner]

This seems to be a reoccurring issue with packages that have moved away from Github to codeberg.org, as undo-fu has.

You can replace the recipe by adding this to $DOOMDIR/packages.el (normally ~/.config/doom/packages.el):

(package! undo-fu
  :recipe (:host github :repo "emacsmirror/undo-fu")
  :pin "913cbb4ff3659d8537c764e56953dbb1b85e73c9")

Then run doom sync -u