{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052/events","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052","id":234533845,"number":9052,"title":"Error installing package (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)","user":{"login":"Azphreal","id":21125058,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/21125058?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal","html_url":"https://github.com/Azphreal","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Azphreal/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":329974681,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/labels/-%20Forum%20-","name":"- Forum -","color":"fef2c0","default":false},{"id":252987758,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/labels/User%20Configuration","name":"User Configuration","color":"207de5","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2017-06-08T13:49:28Z","updated_at":"2017-06-09T04:03:12Z","closed_at":null,"body":"#### Description :octocat:\r\nUnable to install packages using custom `init.el`\r\n\r\n#### Reproduction guide :beetle:\r\n- Create new virtual machine for testing and install Emacs 25.2.1\r\n- Link existing `spacemacs.d` directory to `.spacemacs.d` containing `init.el`, some defined functions and yas-snippets\r\n- Start Emacs\r\n- Spacemacs attempts to install packages\r\n- Most packages fail with (error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil))\r\n- Messages buffer shows these failed packages with \"Installing...\" but no extracting or writing afterwards, since they throw an error\r\n\r\n*Observed behaviour:* :eyes: :broken_heart:\r\nPackages don't install, and Spacemacs throws numerous errors about the missing packages (e.g., symbol function definitions are void because the package doesn't exist). Packages don't seem to have any consistency; include org-mode, magit, git-gutter, flycheck, color-identifiers. Most user config fails.\r\n\r\n*Expected behaviour:* :heart: :smile:\r\nPackages should install normally.\r\n\r\n#### System Info :computer:\r\n- OS: gnu/linux\r\n- Emacs: 25.2.1\r\n- Spacemacs: 0.200.9\r\n- Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 8e1af145)\r\n- Graphic display: t\r\n- Distribution: spacemacs\r\n- Editing style: vim\r\n- Completion: helm\r\n- Layers:\r\n```elisp\r\n(helm better-defaults syntax-checking version-control auto-completion git markdown org emacs-lisp rust pandoc latex bibtex\r\n      (latex :variables latex-enable-auto-fill t)\r\n      (colors :variables colors-colorize-identifiers 'variables))\r\n```\r\n- System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES XWIDGETS"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/comments/307289685","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052#issuecomment-307289685","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/9052","id":307289685,"user":{"login":"JAremko","id":1898905,"avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1898905?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko","html_url":"https://github.com/JAremko","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/JAremko/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2017-06-09T04:03:12Z","updated_at":"2017-06-09T04:03:12Z","body":"@Azphreal Can you upload your .spacemacs.d to GitHub?"}}
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