error in process sentinel: Symbol’s function definition is void: compat-assoc

[Zlopez]

Description :octocat:

Magit status window is not being rewritten and instead you will see

error in process sentinel: Symbol’s function definition is void: compat-assoc

Reproduction guide :beetle:

• Start Emacs
• Open any git project
• SPC g s
• b b
• Change to any branch

Observed behaviour: :eyes: :broken_heart:

error in process sentinel: Symbol’s function definition is void: compat-assoc

Expected behaviour: :heart: :smile: Magit status window is changed correctly

System Info :computer:

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 27.2
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 4eaff2526)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: ivy
• Layers:

(asciidoc shell-scripts ansible systemd html javascript rust yaml python
          (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t)
          emacs-lisp git markdown multiple-cursors org
          (ivy :variables ivy-enable-advanced-buffer-information t)
          spell-checking syntax-checking treemacs version-control)

• System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER GMP

[BenedictHW]

Unable to reproduce on Spacemacs rev. c9db02842. `SPC h d v compat-assoc' shows it's part of a forward comparability package that magit depends on. Check such a package is successfully installed.

[bschwehn]

Thanks. I deleted my emacs.d/elpa folder. During startup I got the error "Package compat is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?" I installed compat manually with package-install.

The error is now gone and SPC h d f finds compat-assoc now.

No idea why the automatic install failed.

[BenedictHW]

Glad it works. This gets me too sometimes. Even if Spacelpa is looking like the promised land right now, I still have hope.

[noidi]

Based on @bschwehn's comment (thanks!) I managed to fix this problem without deleting the elpa directory by running package-reinstall and selecting the compat package.

[Zlopez]

@bschwehn advice fixed the issue for me.

[creasyw]

I deleted the elpa and reinstalled everything, but the problem still prevailed... @noidi advice above fixed the issue for me.

[tanyabouman]

I had the same problem and package-reinstall with compat didn't work. Instead, I got it to work with package-reinstall and magit.

Thanks for the hints in this issue.

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