Re: Invalid duration format error with active timestamp

[Rainer Hansen]

Hi Garjola,

I had the same problem.

I fixed it by downloading manually the last working version of Org from
https://orgmode.org/elpa/,
i.e. https://orgmode.org/elpa/org-20210503.tar
and manually stored the extracted directory into my elpa directory,
/home/garjola/.emacs.d/elpa/ in your case.

After restarting Emacs Org agenda worked fine again.

I hope that helps.

Regards,
Rainer

Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net> writes:

> On Mon 17-May-2021 at 16:01:25 +02, Nicolas Goaziou
> <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: 
>> Hello,
>>
>> Garjola Dindi <garjola@garjola.net> writes:
>>
>>> I am using the most recent elpa version of org
>>> 9.4.5 (9.4.5-93-gbc857b-elpa @
>>> /home/garjola/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20210510/) with emacs master branch.
>>>
>>> Since updating org yesterday, when I use a timestamp like 
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | <2021-05-17 Mon 10:00-11:00>
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>> building the agenda fails with this backtrace:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid duration format:
>>> | #(\"10:00-11:00\" 0 5 (font...")
>>
>> This was fixed a few days ago.
>>
>> Since Org in ELPA is updated every Monday, you need to update it again
>> (later?) today to get the fix.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your answer. I've been impatiently refreshing the packages
> since yesterday, but I don't see any new version of org.
>
> I am using 
>
> http://orgmode.org/elpa/
>
> Is this still correct? Just wondering, since I understood that some
> things are changing in org packaging and distribution.
>
> Thanks for your great work!