Re: Issues installing packages from melpa

[Philip Kaludercic]

Janelle Rose <Janelle.T.Rose@frb.gov> writes:

> I will say the error is different based on the version of emacs that I use. 
> When I use emacs 27.2, I get the option to install the package before it 
> errors. I'll paste the text directly in the email if that makes it easier. 

These seem to be the same error, just handled in different ways. In both
cases \213 indicates a gzip file that is not being handled
properly. Could you check the current value of file-name-handler-alist
(use C-h v) to see if something is missing.

This might be worth a bug report (M-x report-emacs-bug) to
have more people look at what might be the issue.

> Here is the output for 27.2
>
> Leaving directory  /arc/home/m1jtr02/.emacs.d/elpa/abl-mode-20210923.950 
>
>
> Compiling file 
> /arc/home/m1jtr02/.emacs.d/elpa/abl-mode-20210923.950/abl-mode.el at Tue Sep 
> 28 13:32:58 2021
> Entering directory  /arc/home/m1jtr02/.emacs.d/elpa/abl-mode-20210923.950/ 
> abl-mode.el:1:3:Warning: reference to free variable  �\213
> abl-mode.el:1:23:Warning: reference to free variable  � 
> abl-mode.el:1:29:Warning: reference to free variable  ko�F�s�+ 
> abl-mode.el:1:49:Warning: reference to free variable  ZS\201
> abl-mode.el:1:55:Error: Invalid read syntax: ")"
>
> Here is the output from emacs 26.3
>
> These default coding systems were tried to encode text
> in the buffer   *temp* :
>   (utf-8-unix (2 . 4194187) (11 . 4194189) (13 . 4194253) (15
>   . 4194267) (18 . 4194238) (19 . 4194291) (23 . 4194194) (28
>   . 4194195) (29 . 4194264) (30 . 4194275) (32 . 4194284))
> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn t encode:
>   utf-8-unix cannot encode these: \213 \215 \315 \333 \276 \363 \222 \223 
> \330 \343
>
> Click on a character (or switch to this window by  C-x o 
> and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
> where  C-u C-x =  will give information about it.
>
> Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
> or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
>    to remove or modify the problematic characters,
>
> Regards,
> Janelle 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> 
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2021 1:55 PM
> To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Cc: Janelle Rose <Janelle.T.Rose@frb.gov>; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Akber Khan 
> <Akber.Khan@frb.gov>
> Subject: Re: Issues installing packages from melpa
>
>
>
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> It might be some kind of a network issue, but there might be something 
>> wrong with the encoding too. Considering the Janelle's domain, I am 
>> wondering if there might be a proxy issue.
>
> I just noticed that the first bytes "^_" (hex 1f) and "\213" (hex 8B) are the 
> magic bytes for gzip. That means the connection was probably aborted before 
> enough data was transmitted for decoding.

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic