Re: [O] Problem with org-mode after upgradiing to org 8

[Roland Everaert]

Hi,

After further investigation, it is the call to the function (org-agenda-to-appt) inside the function bh/org-agenda-to-appt that is causing the error.

The body of the function:

; Erase all reminders and rebuilt reminders for today from the agenda
(defun bh/org-agenda-to-appt ()
  (interactive)
  (setq appt-time-msg-list nil)
 (org-agenda-to-appt)
)

I will deactivate the call to bh/org-agenda-to-appt, so I can have a normal life again and use emacs and org-mode without any problem. I will review and clean my configuration when times permit.

I am anyway curious to know why that function call generate such error.

Thanks for your help,

Roland.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Roland Everaert <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi John,

I am using Bernt's configuration (at least a part of it) for years without problems until I switch to org 8.

I hame commented most of my init.el file and uncomment bits of configuration lines one at a time. and I have found where is located the problem. I have know to investigate why it is a problem.

The offending line is (bh/org-agenda-to-appt), this is one of the function from the configuration of Bernt, so I have now to check my version against the one on his page to see if he doesn't update it.

And to answer your question, the loaded version of org-mode is "Org-mode version beta_8.3 (beta_8.3-16-g16c71d6 @ /home/reveatwork/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)"

I will also perform a "make clean > make" of my installation of org-mode just in case some their is some garbage left from previous version.

Thanks for your help,

Roland.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:55 PM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Roland Everaert <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have upgraded using git on a Linux fedora 20 64 bit.
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> I perform the following commands from the directory of org-mode:
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> make clean
> git pull
> make

I usually do git pull > make clean > make, but don't know if that
makes a difference, so that's probably fine.

> I have also read the following page:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html
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> And search for all variables in my configuration that start with org-export,
> but I have none of them.

Well, I'm interested in the original error, "Autoloading failed to
define function org-element-cache-reset", not anything to do with
org-export. You should be able to start emacs without any errors, and
I think that's the primary thing to troubleshoot first.

> My configuration is heavily inspired by this article:
> http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

Bernt's page is one of the most advanced orgmode setups documented
that I've ever seen. I wouldn't get too deep into that before figuring
out what's going on at the basic level.

>
> I have quickly browsed it in case some specific changes needs to be done,
> but the only ones concernes the exporters that I have not configured yet.
>
> Which lines from the my ~/.emacs.d/init.el, would you like to see?

How are you telling Emacs where Orgmode lives? My suggestion would be
the following:

Create a minimal .emacs file with just the following (change path to
wherever your orgmode git repo is):

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/org.git/lisp/")

>From a command line, run:

$ emacs -Q

Then from Emacs, run:

M-x load-file [press enter] /path/to/minimal-config/from/above [press enter]

Then run:

M-x org-version

You should get something like this:

Org-mode version 8.2.6 (release_8.2.6-950-ge599e8 @
/home/jwhendy/.elisp/org.git/lisp/)

If you don't get any errors, close emacs, copy some lines from your
"real" config into that minimal config, and repeat the process (emacs
-Q -> M-x load-file...) until you get the error again. Then you'll
know what's causing it. Doing it this way helps know that you've at
least got the "right" Org-mode loaded (not the one built in to your
Emacs), and from there we can track the issue.

Once that's all set, getting exporters going is a pretty simple
matter. I have this in my .emacs:

(require 'ox-latex)
(require 'ox-html)
(require 'ox-beamer)
(require 'ox-md)
(require 'ox-odt)
(require 'ox-taskjuggler)

(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
             '("beamer"
               "\\documentclass\[presentation\]\{beamer\}"
               ("\\section\{%s\}" . "\\section*\{%s\}")
               ("\\subsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsection*\{%s\}")
               ("\\subsubsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsubsection*\{%s\}")))

That handles it all for me.

Also, please keep cc'ing the Org list. They know much more than I do,
and as you provide more information can probably help you better than
I can as well.


Good luck!
John

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> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:39 PM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Jun 30, 2014 4:48 AM, "Roland Everaert" <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > Second part of the message:
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>> > Information from M-x org-version:
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>> > Org-mode version beta_8.3 (beta_8.3-16-g16c71d6 @
>> > /home/reveatwork/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)
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>> > I have downloaded the last version using git.
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>> Can you elaborate on your exact procedure for upgrading as well as posting
>> relevant lines from .emacs?
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>> John
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>> > How can I switch to a stable branch instead of the last beta, to check
>> > if that solves the problem?
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>> > Thanks for your help.
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>> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Roland Everaert <address@hidden>
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>> >> Hi,
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>> >> I have recently upgraded to org-mode version 8. Each time I start emacs
>> >> I see the folloinwg error:
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>> >> error "Autoloading failed to define function org-element-cache-reset"
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>> >> And some functionnality of org-mode doesn't seems to work anymore.
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>> >> Informa
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