Spacelpa problem with Emacs 26

[NightMachinary]

Description

Emacs 26 doesn't work with spacelpa.

Reproduction guide 🐞

• Start Emacs
• The following error is shown:

Warning (tar): Extracted ‘� �’, a link, as a normal file
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/Users/evar/.emacs.d/init.el’:

Args out of range:  *tar-data spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz*, 513, 234451831318

System Info 💻

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 26.0.9
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 5c251f6)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(javascript vimscript
            (rust :variables rust-format-on-save t)
            crystal
            (haskell :variables haskell-enable-hindent t)
            html python
            (scala :variables scala-auto-insert-asterisk-in-comments t scala-use-unicode-arrows t scala-auto-insert-asterisk-in-comments t)
            autohotkey kotlin helm
            (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t)
            emacs-lisp
            (ibuffer :variables ibuffer-group-buffers-by 'modes)
            coq emoji
            (unicode-fonts :variables unicode-fonts-force-multi-color-on-mac t)
            git
            (java :variables java-backend 'ensime)
            markdown org
            (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
            spell-checking syntax-checking version-control osx racket clojure)

[dp12]

I'm seeing the same thing on Windows with Emacs 26.0.91. I had to set dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa nil to get around the issue for now.

Warning (tar): Extracted ‘� �’, a link, as a normal file
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘c:/home/.emacs.d/init.el’:

Args out of range: tar-data spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz, 513, 234451831318

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace.

[dp12]

I'm seeing the same thing on Windows with Emacs 26.0.91. I had to set dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa nil to get around the issue for now.

Warning (tar): Extracted ‘� �’, a link, as a normal file
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘c:/home/.emacs.d/init.el’:

Args out of range: tar-data spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz, 513, 234451831318

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace.

[NightMachinary]

The issue is present with Emacs 27.0.50 as well:

System Info 💻

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 27.0.50
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 0fa3658)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(javascript vimscript
            (rust :variables rust-format-on-save t)
            crystal
            (haskell :variables haskell-enable-hindent t)
            html python chrome
            (scala :variables scala-auto-insert-asterisk-in-comments t scala-use-unicode-arrows t scala-auto-insert-asterisk-in-comments t)
            autohotkey kotlin helm
            (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t)
            emacs-lisp
            (ibuffer :variables ibuffer-group-buffers-by 'modes)
            coq emoji
            (unicode-fonts :variables unicode-fonts-force-multi-color-on-mac t)
            git
            (java :variables java-backend 'ensime)
            markdown org
            (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
            spell-checking
            (syntax-checking :variables syntax-checking-enable-tooltips t)
            (elm :variables elm-sort-imports-on-save t elm-format-on-save t)
            version-control osx racket clojure)

• System configuration features: RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS

[NightMachinary]

The issue is present with Emacs 27.0.50 as well:

System Info 💻

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 27.0.50
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 0fa3658)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(javascript vimscript
            (rust :variables rust-format-on-save t)
            crystal
            (haskell :variables haskell-enable-hindent t)
            html python chrome
            (scala :variables scala-auto-insert-asterisk-in-comments t scala-use-unicode-arrows t scala-auto-insert-asterisk-in-comments t)
            autohotkey kotlin helm
            (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t)
            emacs-lisp
            (ibuffer :variables ibuffer-group-buffers-by 'modes)
            coq emoji
            (unicode-fonts :variables unicode-fonts-force-multi-color-on-mac t)
            git
            (java :variables java-backend 'ensime)
            markdown org
            (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
            spell-checking
            (syntax-checking :variables syntax-checking-enable-tooltips t)
            (elm :variables elm-sort-imports-on-save t elm-format-on-save t)
            version-control osx racket clojure)

• System configuration features: RSVG IMAGEMAGICK NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS

[kyuwoo-choi]

here's the same issue with emacs 25.3.2, develop branch, dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa t

[kyuwoo-choi]

here's the same issue with emacs 25.3.2, develop branch, dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa t

[kyuwoo-choi]

I fixed this by chmod 777 ~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/your.emacs.version/spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz.

I found the file permission is "600"??? too restricted.
So I just gave it a try dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa t after I changed the permission.
And BOOM!!!

I got a luck today 🤣

nah... It doesn't fix. It was a stupid mistake.

[kyuwoo-choi]

I fixed this by chmod 777 ~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/your.emacs.version/spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz.

I found the file permission is "600"??? too restricted.
So I just gave it a try dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa t after I changed the permission.
And BOOM!!!

I got a luck today 🤣

nah... It doesn't fix. It was a stupid mistake.

[sutram]

Same here with 25.3.1 on OS X. In the file .emacs.d/init.el, I commented out line 32
;; (configuration-layer/stable-elpa-download-tarball)

which I suppose is the same as dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa nil ?

and it worked

[sutram]

Same here with 25.3.1 on OS X. In the file .emacs.d/init.el, I commented out line 32
;; (configuration-layer/stable-elpa-download-tarball)

which I suppose is the same as dotspacemacs-use-spacelpa nil ?

and it worked

[thanhvg]

I found a workaround
After spacemacs crashes go to ~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/YOUR_EMACS_VERSION mine is
~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/25.3.2
you find a tarball spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz, extract it you will have the repo folder with the same name /spacelpa-0.300
Create a file name version in the same folder with the tarball, put a string 0.300 to it and save.
Restart spacemacs it should work.
I think you can safely delete the tarball
I got it from here #9958

[thanhvg]

I found a workaround
After spacemacs crashes go to ~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/YOUR_EMACS_VERSION mine is
~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/25.3.2
you find a tarball spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz, extract it you will have the repo folder with the same name /spacelpa-0.300
Create a file name version in the same folder with the tarball, put a string 0.300 to it and save.
Restart spacemacs it should work.
I think you can safely delete the tarball
I got it from here #9958

[bhipple]

Thanks @thanhvg! This worked for me:

$ cd ~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/25.3.1
$ tar -xzvf spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz
$ echo -n "0.300" > version

Notably, the tarball is just extracted in the same dir, and if the version file has a newline, spacemacs won't recognize it!

[bhipple]

Thanks @thanhvg! This worked for me:

$ cd ~/.emacs.d/.cache/stable-elpa/25.3.1
$ tar -xzvf spacelpa-0.300.tar.gz
$ echo -n "0.300" > version

Notably, the tarball is just extracted in the same dir, and if the version file has a newline, spacemacs won't recognize it!

[kyuwoo-choi]

HA! thanks @bhipple
for me @thanhvg solution was not working because my version file doesn't have a newline!

👍 for you mentioned a newline.

[kyuwoo-choi]

HA! thanks @bhipple
for me @thanhvg solution was not working because my version file doesn't have a newline!

👍 for you mentioned a newline.

[PierreR]

@syl20bnr Any hope for a proper fix anytime soon ?

[PierreR]

@syl20bnr Any hope for a proper fix anytime soon ?