Bug#1115309: elpa-magit: magit-branch fails with error message

[Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>]

Xiyue Deng wrote:

> Though I cannot reproduce this on my stable system using your recipe.
> Can you check whether there are any residual previous installation of
> transient with the following command?
>
> ,----
> | $ ls -ld /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/*transient*
> `----

Thanks for coming back to me.  The command you give outputs the single
line

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154 Aug 13 17:01 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/transient-0.8.8

Also, M-x find-library RET transient does bring up version 0.8.8 of
transient.el.

The fact that you cannot reproduce this made me try as a different local
user.  And indeed, with the different user, I cannot reproduce the
problem as well!

So this must somehow depend on my user-specific configuration, but
shouldn’t ‘emacs -q’ disable most of it?  As far as I know, I do not do
anything strange with environment variables.

Any suggestions what I could try to debug this?

Sean Whitton wrote:

> Seeing ## makes me think of elpa-llama ?

Yes, although I checked that llama itself works.  It seems to be related
indirectly, see
https://github.com/magit/magit/discussions/5441#discussioncomment-14408198