Re: package-quickstart: How To Debug?

[Stefan Monnier]

> OK, I'm attaching a tarball below containing:
>
> 1. working package-quickstart.el* (with no marshall package installed)
>    2. tmp/package-quickstart.el* --- broken emacs with marshall
>       installed.

Thanks, it does signal an error for me indeed:

    Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Given parent class marshal-base is 
not a class")
      signal(error ("Given parent class marshal-base is not a class"))
      error("Given parent class %S is not a class" marshal-base)
      eieio-defclass-internal(gh-object (marshal-base) nil 
(:marshal-default-spec gh-marshal-default-spec))
      
byte-code("\306\30\307\301\310\311\306!\206\15\0\11@!\"\210\312\313!\203\33\0\313\314\315\"\210)\316\30\307\301\310\311\316!\206)\0\11@!\"\210\313\317\320\"\210)..."
 [load-file-name load-path anaphora-use-long-names-only 
git-rebase-filename-regexp after-init-time global-auto-revert-mode 
"/home/raman/.emacs.d/elpa/zoutline-20190520.1819/z..." add-to-list 
directory-file-name file-name-directory fboundp register-definition-prefixes 
"zoutline" ("zo-") "/home/raman/.emacs.d/elpa/zmq-20200912.1126/zmq-au..." 
"zmq" ("zmq-") "/home/raman/.emacs.d/elpa/yasnippet-20200604.246/y..." autoload 
yas-minor-mode "yasnippet" "Toggle YASnippet mode.\n\nIf called interactively, 
e..." t nil put yas-global-mode globalized-minor-mode (lambda (def-tmp-var) 
(defvar yas-global-mode def-tmp-var "Non-nil if Yas-Global mode is 
enabled.\nSee the `ya...")) custom-autoload "Toggle Yas minor mode in all 
buffers.\nWith prefix ..." snippet-mode "A mode for editing yasnippets" 
("help-snippet-def" "snippet-mode-map" "yas") 
"/home/raman/.emacs.d/elpa/yasnippet-snippets-20201..." 
yasnippet-snippets-initialize "yasnippet-snippets" "Load the 
`yasnippet-snippets' snippets directory." eval-after-load yasnippet 
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x7758bc1>) ("yasnippet-snippets-") 
"/home/raman/.emacs.d/elpa/xr-1.20/xr-autoloads.el" xr "xr" "Convert a regexp 
string to rx notation; the invers..." xr-skip-set "Convert a skip set string 
argument to rx notation...." xr-lint "Detect dubious practices and possible 
mistakes in ..." xr-skip-set-lint ...] 11)
      load("~/.emacs.d/package-quickstart.elc" nil nomessage)
      package-activate-all()
      command-line()
      normal-top-level()

I haven't figured out yet the source of the problem,


        Stefan