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Package: elpa-magit
Version: 4.3.5-1+deb13u1
Severity: important
Hi!
After upgrading a machine to trixie locally, emacs seems to be working
fine. Using it to write this mail!
But when I try to start magit using M-x magit-status, I get the
following error and no magit:
slot-missing: Invalid slot name: "#<transient-option
transient-option-1037fa0c2081>", :always-read
In case it's my local config in .emacs etc. that might be causing this
problem, I've tested again with a new user with no customisations and
I still see the same issue.
Help please!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages elpa-magit depends on:
ii dh-elpa-helper 2.1.9
ii elpa-llama 0.6.2-1
ii elpa-magit-section 4.3.5-1+deb13u1
ii elpa-transient 0.8.8-1
ii elpa-with-editor 3.4.3-1
ii emacs 1:30.1+1-6
ii emacs-common [elpa-transient] 1:30.1+1-6
ii emacs-lucid [emacs] 1:30.1+1-6
ii emacsen-common 3.0.8
ii git 1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1
elpa-magit recommends no packages.
elpa-magit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Hey!
Massive thanks for your help, and sorry for not responding sooner -
was away on a work trip for a couple of days...
On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 02:25:22PM -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 11:42:36AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>
>>>Hmmm, OK. That works without errors.
>>>
>
>I just realized that the minimalist command I provided didn't load the
>transient package, so it's using the transient bundled in Emacs instead.
>Can you also try the following command that does that and see whether
>you can reproduce the issue?
>
>,----[ Minialist command with trasient loaded ]
>| emacs -Q --eval "(progn (add-to-list 'load-path
>\"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/magit-4.3.5\") (add-to-list 'load-path
>\"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/llama-0.6.2\") (add-to-list 'load-path
>\"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/magit-section-4.3.5\") (add-to-list
>'load-path \"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/with-editor-3.4.3\") (add-to-list
>'load-path \"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/transient-0.8.8\") (require
>'magit))"
>`----
>
>This should help determine whether anything related to the
>transient-0.8.8 installation is causing issues.
ACK.
That command works just fine, like last time.
>>>I'll dig a little more.
>>
>> No joy at all :-(
>>
>> For now I've gone back to elpa-magit from bookworm so I can continue
>> working. Happy to help with debugging if you can suggest anything more
>> to try; I'm really not an elisp hacker and I'm out of my depth.
>>
>
>Another thing to try is to check whether you have any residual transient
>installation lingering around under `/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa',
>like `transient-0.3.7' from bookworm. If so, can you remove it and
>retry?
Bingo - that's it. I have no recollection of ever putting it there,
but I had an old directory
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/transient-0.2.0.30/
. I've just removed that and all seems to be working fine now.
I also have some other older versions of various packages in there,
which is worrying. I'm cleaning those out now too.
>In that spirit, you can also try to remove the native compilation files
>and regenerate them to see if that helps (they will regenerate next time
>you launch Emacs after removal), which is usually named `eln-cache' and
>located under the Emacs configuration directory (~/.config/emacs or
>~/.emacs.d).
>
>Also I would suggest to add `(setq load-prefer-newer t)' to your init.el
>if you haven't done so, which should avoid most of the cache related
>issues.
I'll do that now too.
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