I have no idea if it relates to what you describe with cask and dependencies, but I had the same error and found several old threads stating that it's caused by installing org when it's already initialized.
I solved it by Emacs -q and reinstalling from elpa. If you search for the old threads there was a link to documentation that explains why this occurs which may be of some help addressing with cask. On Jun 17, 2014 3:38 PM, "Grant Rettke" <g...@wisdomandwonder.com> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > Just upgraded to 8.2.7 and was surprised to get the > "org-with-silent-modifications" error. Here is what happened. > > The first time that I set up my Emacs libraries, using Cask, which > uses the Emacs package manager, it install org2blog which has org > 8.2.6 as a dependency. Then, Cask installed org-plus-contrib 8.2.6 and > life went on. Then I can cask update to get the 8.2.7 release (Cask > just pulls from the org repo). > > Started up Emacs and got that aforementioned error. The issue seemed > to revolve around load-path or > load-order, and I didn't understand any further than that. It was very > strange because my whole approach > had been to automate everything so it would "just work". > > Poking around, I eventually saw that org2blog depends on "org" (yes > now I admit that I didn't know this when > at first, but that is not relevant here I believe). That just didn't > look right to have both orgs in there, so I deleted plain old "org" > and commented out the org2blog load. Now Emacs works again. > > The issue seems to be that org-plus-contrib doesn't satisfy "org" from > a package manager perspective. > > This surprised me because the former is a superset. > > My next step now is to figure out what to do from a package > perspective, because I would like to keep > org2blog in there. > > Anyone else encountered this and want to share the solution? > > I'm going to think about this some more and see. > > Kind regards, > > Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi > g...@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/ > “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates > ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x))) > “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop > taking it seriously.” --Thompson > >
