{"id":10996,"date":"2022-12-06T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10996"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:11:31","slug":"psa-beware-of-error-with-org-9-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10996","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Beware of Error With Org 9.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My usual routine is to update my Emacs packages on Sunday. After my last update, I restarted Emacs and Org wouldn\u2019t load, complaining that <code>org-assert-version<\/code> was an invalid function. After a bit of messing around, I uninstalled Org-9.6 from my Elpa repository and deleted all the files. When I restarted Emacs, I got the builtin version of Org, Org-9.5.5, which worked perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>The Org mailing list has a <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.gnu.org\/archive\/html\/emacs-orgmode\/2022-12\/msg00005.html\">short thread on the problem<\/a> but it\u2019s hard to figure out what\u2019s going on. Apparently <code>org-assert-version<\/code> is intended to deal with the repository being corrupted by files from different versions. There\u2019s been a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.gnu.org\/archive\/html\/emacs-orgmode\/2022-09\/msg00202.html\">pushback on org-assert-version<\/a> and a patch intended to fix the invalid function problem by Bastien also received some pushback so it\u2019s not clear when the issue will be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty certain it\u2019s not a mixed versions problem because I nuked my Org-9.6 repository, did a fresh install, and still got the error. I\u2019m happy enough running 9.5.5 but I <i>do<\/i> wish this would get resolved.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, if you see this problem, just uninstall 9.6 and let the builtin version take over. The Org maintainers are very good at getting things like this fixed so I\u2019m confident that when I do my updates this coming Sunday, the situation will be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My usual routine is to update my Emacs packages on Sunday. After my last update, I restarted Emacs and Org wouldn\u2019t load, complaining that org-assert-version was an invalid function. After a bit of messing around, I uninstalled Org-9.6 from my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-10996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10997,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10996\/revisions\/10997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}