emacs crashed after executing list-packages and cannot recover - emacs

My emacs crashed after I innocently entered the list-packages command and it will not recover.
I have tried re-installing it from homebrew, all I have in the *messages* buffer is this message:
Loading /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/proof-general/generic/proof-site.el (source)...done
package-read-archive-contents: Wrong type argument: arrayp, (spass . [(1 1 2) nil "Emacs wrapper for DisPass" single])
What can I do?

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I saw this question Emacs error "Failed to initialize color list unarchiver" when I call it in the terminal but it didn't help. I get the similar error but for m1 chip instead of intel x86 I think:
2022-04-14 17:08:00.370 Emacs-arm64-12[24779:1101019] Failed to initialize color list unarchiver: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: non-keyed archive cannot be decoded by NSKeyedUnarchiver}
I added the command I was told to my .emacs but it didn't help:
(meta_learning) brandomiranda~/coq4brando/cs598 ❯ cat ~/.emacs
;; Open .v files with Proof General's Coq mode
(load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/PG/generic/proof-site")
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/evil")
(require 'evil)
(evil-mode 1)
(load-file (let ((coding-system-for-read 'utf-8))
(shell-command-to-string "agda-mode locate")))
(delete-file "~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr")
why is this error happening and how do I remove it?

Emacs org-roam - org-roam-mode-find error

Just installed org-roam and compiling sqlite. When invoking M-x org-roam-mode-find then I receive the error :
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Autoloading file /home/mcp/.emacs.d/elpa/org-roam-...")
autoload-do-load((autoload "org-roam" nil t nil) org-roam-mode-find)
command-execute(org-roam-mode-find)
Run Emacs 27.2 build 1 x86_64-pc-linux-GTK+Version 3.24.27, cairo version 1.17.4
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Emacs failed to load initialization file

I am using Emacs 25.3 under windows 10 platform.
It works fine until one time I started it and got the following message:
Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘
c:/Users/shore/AppData/Roaming/.emacs’:
Wrong type argument: listp, <html>
To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with
the ‘--debug-init’ option to view a complete error backtrace.
As instructed I used --debug-init option to start and got the following message:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp <html>)
package--read-archive-file("archives/gnu/archive-contents")
package-read-archive-contents("gnu")
package-read-all-archive-contents()
package-initialize()
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "c:/Users/shore/AppData/Roaming/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 275
load-with-code-conversion("c:/Users/shore/AppData/Roaming/.emacs" "c:/Users/shore/AppData/Roaming/.emacs" t t)
load("~/.emacs" t t)
[init-file-user system-type delayed-warnings-list user-init-file inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-screen ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt "/.emacs" directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" initialization format-message "`_emacs' init file is deprecated, please use `.emacs'" "~/_emacs" t load expand-file-name "init" file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default"] 7]()
command-line()
normal-top-level()
Can anyone tell me where my problem is and how to fix it?
It's telling you that when it tried to read file archives/gnu/archive-contents it expected to read Lisp (more specifically a Lisp list). Instead, it encountered <html> (presumably text in the file).
A guess is that you somehow downloaded or picked up an HTML file (perhaps one that describes the archive file or that has links to download it) instead of downloading or picking up a file of Lisp code. Try once again to obtain that archive file.

Can't run emacs as daemon

Trying to run
>emacs --daemon
in a shell produces
Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.
Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem.
Loading /home/me/.emacs.d/customizations/navigation.el (source)...
Loading /home/me/.emacs.d/.recentf...
Loading /home/me/.emacs.d/.recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...
Loading /home/me/.emacs.d/customizations/navigation.el (source)...done
Loading /home/me/.emacs.d/customizations/ui.el (source)...
Backtrace:
emacs[0x505e79]
emacs[0x4ed4cc]
emacs[0x504b2e]
emacs[0x504ce3]
emacs[0x504d6f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0xfc90)[0x7f1ba0acac90]
emacs[0x44cd4e]
emacs[0x471ad2]
emacs[0x55f137]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55ef53]
emacs[0x55f3fa]
emacs[0x566333]
emacs[0x566592]
emacs[0x55f137]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55ef53]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55ef53]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55ef53]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55ef53]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x560148]
emacs[0x55e3e6]
emacs[0x58219a]
emacs[0x5824a9]
emacs[0x55f0fb]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55eb92]
emacs[0x55ef53]
emacs[0x55f309]
emacs[0x582a73]
emacs[0x55e607]
emacs[0x58219a]
emacs[0x5824a9]
emacs[0x55f0fb]
emacs[0x5939c3]
emacs[0x55eb92]
emacs[0x55ef53]
...
Error: server did not start correctly
Similar happens when I go with
> emacsclient -c -a ""
Starting emacs the normal way, I can do
M-x (server-start)
but I don't think it's actually working, because running
(defun --running-as-server ()
"Returns true if `server-start' has been called."
(condition-case nil
(and (boundp 'server-process)
(memq (process-status server-process)
'(connect listen open run)))
(error)))
in ielm gives only
(listen open run)
back instead of T or nil, and running
ELISP> (daemonp)
gives back nil. My version of Emacs is GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2) on Ubuntu 14.10. How can I get Emacs to run as a server/daemon?
I run emacs on Slackware 14.2 in daemon mode. My only issue was I was tired of seeing the warning. Other than that, the server ran fine for my purposes. What I did to get rid of the warning was to download the latest version of emacs from their official site
(emacs 26.1), removed the emacs package that came with my Slackware version, then unpacked and compiled the new version:
sudo tar -xvf emacs-26.1.tar.xz
./configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid
make
sudo make install
It's been running fine, no problems and no warning when the server starts.
You might want to give that a try. The GNU Project site here http://mirror.keystealth.org/gnu/emacs/ has the latest versions in .tar.gz format as well if you prefer
I was encountering this same error and was able to resolve it by removing my .emacs.d directory.
rm -fr ~/.emacs.d

slime doesn't work in emacs24

I use emacs24 in archlinux.If i use the slime packages from marmalade.org,then when i use M-x slime the error is:
debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "initial thread" RUNNING {AB007A9}>:
Couldn't load
"/home/sinners/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20100404.1/swank-loader.lisp": file does
not exist.
Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
but if i use the slime-cvs packages from the offical site,the error is:
Debugger entered: (("Error in timer" slime-attempt-connection (#<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) (void-variable --cl-accu--)))
#[257 "\302\303\304\300\301F\"\207" [slime-attempt-connection (#<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) debug nil "Error in timer"] 7 "\n\n(fn DATA)"]((void-variable --cl-accu--))
funcall(#[257 "\302\303\304\300\301F\"\207" [slime-attempt-connection (#<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) debug nil "Error in timer"] 7 "\n\n(fn DATA)"] (void-variable --cl-accu--))
slime-timer-call(slime-attempt-connection #<process inferior-lisp> nil 2)
apply(slime-timer-call (slime-attempt-connection #<process inferior-lisp> nil 2))
byte-code("r\301\302H\303H\"\210)\301\207" [timer apply 5 6] 4)
timer-event-handler([t 20271 59188 161536 0.3 slime-timer-call (slime-attempt-connection #<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) nil])
anyone can help me?
Problem with --cl-accu-- variable signs about breakage of emacs cl package in presence of lexical scoping. Try to go to slime.el in your slime distribution, find string
;; lexical-binding: t in the ;; Local Variables: section at the end of the file and change it to ;; lexical-binding: nil. And remove old slime.elc file if you have one.
I had the exact same problem, which was solved by deleting the slime.elc file, that I had compiled earlier using byte-recompile-directory. I didn't try compiling it again.
I'm not sure, but this problem can be due to different versions of SLIME and SWANK. However you should just use pacman to install a lisp implementation ­(I think that SBCL is the most popular implementation on Linux) and then use quicklisp to install everything else.
See this blog post to see how to install SWANK and SLIME with quicklisp.