Re: Reports 'Scan error' over and over and can become unresponsive

[Michael Albinus]

Todd Goldfinger <goldfita@gmail.com> writes:

> Michael,

Hi Todd,

> I tried emacs '/-:|sudo::' with debug-on-error set to true in my
> simplified init.el. I also tried it with my regular init.el. But I'm
> not getting a backtrace. I did notice a few more errors. The error
> about custom.el is only because I deleted it. If I open emacs again,
> it goes away. If I insert a few blank lines at the top of init.el, the
> scan errors move location slightly, so it does appear to be
> complaining about customizations. I'm wondering if it's having some
> issue reading the file due to permissions or because it's on a mounted
> windows partition. However, I had tried it with my init.el inside the
> docker container. And it doesn't complain about the rest of my
> init.el, which is quite lengthy.
>
> error: "Invalid face custom-changed"
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 2" [3 times]
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 3 4"
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 4" [2 times]
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 2" [15 times]
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 3 4"
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 4" [2 times]
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 2" [12 times]
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 3 4"
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 4" [2 times]
> Scan error: "Scan error", "Unbalanced parentheses 1 2" [9 times]
> File is missing: Opening input file No such file or directory
> /mnt/home/share/.emacs.d/custom.el
> (New file)

Hmm. What happens, if you start Emacs with the --debug-init option?

> Todd

Best regards, Michael.