Emacs Recursive Load

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I was updating the packages in my emacs 25.0.50 build. And for some reason it didn't work properly. When I restarted emacs I received the following fatal error message:

error: Recursive load, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq-25.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/elpa/seq-2.15/seq.elc, /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/HEAD/share/emacs/25.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-extra.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/core/prelude-packages.elc, /Users/Maurice/.emacs.d/init.el

Could anyone explain to me what I should do to rectify this situation?

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And I am using Prelude by b.batsov.... sorry for not mentioning this earlier – Maurice Pomerantz
How is the error message unclear? cl-extra pulls in bytecomp which pulls in cl-extra which pulls in bytecomp ... – tripleee
The culprit looks like your local seq which overrides the Emacs standard seq and apparently contains an invalid recursive dependency, but this is speculation. – tripleee
So now that you know what the problem is, what would you do to fix this error? Thanks. – Maurice Pomerantz
If you are still unable to debug this, are you sure Stack Overflow is the right place to ask? Anyway, if your local seq is the culprit, removing that should help (but may cause new symptoms which need to be diagnosed and resolved in turn). As a fallback, try disabling Prelude, or even rename your .emacs.d and start over from a clean slate. – tripleee

1 Answers

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"Recursive load" means you have a circular dependency between packages. cl-extra pulls in (by way of load or require, etc) seq, which pulls in bytecomp, which pulls in cl-extra, which pulls in seq, ...

By the looks of it, you have a locally installed third-party packaged version of seq, so removing that as the probable culprit seems like the way to go; but there is a reason it's being pulled in, so it's likely that something else stops working because of this change, and so on.

Prelude seems to want this; maybe you'll need to give up on it until this problem has been resolved. (File a bug report if you can!)