Emacs run batch using run-hooks 'emacs-startup-hook dies

[braun-steven]

Description

I'm trying to export my agenda-views via org-batch-store-agenda-views from the commandline. For this I'm running:

emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el --eval "(run-hooks 'emacs-startup-hook)" --eval '(org-batch-store-agenda-views)'

Which outputs

...
Skipping check for new version (reason: dotfile)
Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil
Warning (emacs): recentf mode: Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil
Error in kill-emacs-hook (ido-kill-emacs-hook): (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)

and exits.

Running org-store-agenda-views (non-batch version) from within emacs GUI works without any issue.

Reproduction guide 🪲

Run

emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el --eval "(run-hooks 'emacs-startup-hook)" --eval '(org-batch-store-agenda-views)'

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔
Output:

...
Warning (emacs): recentf mode: Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil
Error in kill-emacs-hook (ido-kill-emacs-hook): (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄

• Emacs shouldn't error out and produce the agenda export file

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 28.0.50
• Spacemacs: 0.300.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. d4a27ba)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(javascript vimscript html csv helm
            (auto-completion :variables spacemacs-default-company-backends
                             '(company-files company-capf)
                             auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t auto-completion-enable-sort-by-usage t)
            emacs-lisp git markdown org
            (shell :variables shell-default-term-shell "/bin/zsh" multi-term-program "/bin/zsh" shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom shell-scripts-backend 'lsp)
            (spell-checking :variables enable-flyspell-auto-completion nil spell-checking-enable-auto-dictionary t spell-checking-enable-by-default nil)
            syntax-checking
            (version-control :variables version-control-diff-tool 'diff-hl version-control-global-margin t)
            themes-megapack
            (python :variables python-backend 'lsp python-lsp-server 'mspyls)
            (gtags :variables gtags-enable-by-default t)
            (latex :variables latex-enable-auto-fill t)
            pdf
            (c-c++ :variables =c-c++-backend= 'lsp-clangd)
            gpu prolog deft)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Backtrace 🐾

[smile13241324]

Hmm using spacemacs as a batch is something I haven't seen in a looooonnnnnggggg time.
I will have a look.

[smile13241324]

Sorry to say but I have no clue why this is not working maybe someone from the community is more familiar with the emacs batch use-case and can help here.

[JAremko]

You can try cleaning up the kill-emacs-hook variable.

[JAremko]

The problem, most likely, is that the ido-kill-emacs-hook thingy tries to interact with a user and fails in a strange way 🤔

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