emacs 28 - find source of wrong-number-of-arguments error
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quantum_mattress · 2022-06-07 23:18

Hi.

Started running 28.1 on Centos 7.9.2009.  Whenever I start it, I get
these errors at the beginning of my \*Messages\* buffer:

Eager macro-expansion-failure: (wrong-number-of-arguments (3 . 4)  2)
\[2 times\]
Error loading autoloads: (wrong-number-of-arguments (3 . 4)  2)
Loading ....emacs.d/myinit.el (source)...

I'm not a programmer and can only do some light emacs-lisp code but I
read about this and think I understand but don't know what file it's
coming from!  How do I trace the source of this and fix it?

Thanks!

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flexibeast · 2022-06-08 01:55

Add:

    (setq debug-on-error t)

to the start of `myinit.el`; that should hopefully give you some more
information.

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quantum_mattress · 2022-06-08 17:25

Unfortunately, that made zero difference. I tried commenting out my
entire init.el but still had the errors. But, if I run emacs -Q (or
-q), it’s fine. I looked through the directories in load-path and
didn’t see a default.el or site-start.el.

I’m just guessing, but is it something to do with the native compile
in 28.1?

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SpikeyWallaby · 2022-06-08 18:29

Do you have a compiled (.elc) version of your init file? It could
prevent the changes to your init.el from being picked up.

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quantum_mattress · 2022-06-08 19:54

No. I don’t see any compiled files in my .emacs.d directory and
changes to init.el were seen when starting emacs.

emacs -debug-init didn’t show anything.  Is there some more extensive
debugging/tracing I can turn on?

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quantum_mattress · 2022-06-08 20:20

Somehow, I appear to have found it by starting with -q and then
evaluating my init file. Was something in the package ignoramus.

Thanks for the help.