"Caches are still outdated; something is seriously wrong"

[ieure]

What's wrong

When I run straight-freeze-versions, I get prompted:

Caches are outdated, reload init-file? (y or n)

No matter if I answer y or n, I always get the error:

straight--ensure-profile-cache-valid: Caches are still outdated; something is seriously wrong

Directions to reproduce

1. Start Emacs.
2. Wait a while. It never happens on a fresh start of Emacs. This might happen after I edit a file or pull changes to a repo in in ~/.emacs.d/straight/repos, but I'm not 100% sure.
3. Run M-x straight-freeze-versions.

Version information

• Emacs version:

  GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)

• Operating system:

  Debian 10.2 "Buster"

[dericbytes]

I got the same problem. But I restarted emacs and ran again and it worked.

Any way to solve this without a restart.

Emacs: 28.0.50
Straight: Sun Aug 30 06:31:29 2020
Ubuntu: 18.04 4 LTS

[ieure]

Yep, it still happens for me. Always works on a clean start, never works on a session that's been running a while.

[raxod502]

Is it possible that under some circumstances, loading your user-init-file will not result in the straight.el bootstrap getting run again? That would cause this behavior if you had interactively invoked straight-use-package between Emacs startup and running straight-freeze-versions.

[raxod502]

Also, you can work around the bug by saying "no" when it asks to reload your init-file the first time, right?

[ieure]

Also, you can work around the bug by saying "no" when it asks to reload your init-file the first time, right?

No, the error happens no matter what I answer. The only workaround is to restart Emacs.

Is it possible that under some circumstances, loading your user-init-file will not result in the straight.el bootstrap getting run again?

Yes. My configuration is large, so I broke it out into separate files which get REQUIREd by init.el. Straight's bootstrap code is inside one of those files, so it wouldn't get evaluated again if the init file was reloaded.

That would cause this behavior if you had interactively invoked straight-use-package between Emacs startup and running straight-freeze-versions.

Possible, I have long-lived sessions and sometimes try out one thing or another.

[raxod502]

the error happens no matter what I answer. The only workaround is to restart Emacs.

Based on the implementation of straight--ensure-profile-cache-valid, this seems impossible to me:

https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/blob/d27ad625838a679e0184ddf327bfea62760ae2fe/straight.el#L5494-L5506

I have been surprised many times before, however. Would you mind double-checking, just to be sure that something inexplicable is happening?

Straight's bootstrap code is inside one of those files, so it wouldn't get evaluated again if the init file was reloaded.

Well, that's the problem. You need to change this for your configuration to be compatible with straight.el. I will update the documentation to be clear on this.

[ieure]

the error happens no matter what I answer. The only workaround is to restart Emacs.

Based on the implementation of straight--ensure-profile-cache-valid, this seems impossible to me:

I have been surprised many times before, however. Would you mind double-checking, just to be sure that something inexplicable is happening?

I'm not able to reproduce this now, perhaps it changed since I filed the original bug. It definitely was happening at that time.

Straight's bootstrap code is inside one of those files, so it wouldn't get evaluated again if the init file was reloaded.

Well, that's the problem. You need to change this for your configuration to be compatible with straight.el. I will update the documentation to be clear on this.

Is it sufficient to put only the bootstrap code in there (this stuff), or does straight expect every STRAIGHT-USE-PACKAGE to be reevaluated when the init file is reloaded?