init.el fails to launch

[GiulioCentorame]

Describe the bug
I have noticed that this error message started popping up from time to time when launched, most likely after a package update:

`Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/home/giuliocentorame/.emacs.d/init.el’:

error: Keyword argument :init-fn not one of (:initial-input :height :occur :update-fn :unwind-fn :index-fn :sort-fn :format-fn :display-transformer-fn :more-chars :grep-p :exit-codes)

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. `

and Emacs doesn't launch the init.el at all.

--debug-init reports the following:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Keyword argument :init-fn not one of (:initial-input :height :occur :update-fn :unwind-fn :index-fn :sort-fn :format-fn :display-transformer-fn :more-chars :grep-p :exit-codes)") signal(error ("Keyword argument :init-fn not one of (:initial-input :height :occur :update-fn :unwind-fn :index-fn :sort-fn :format-fn :display-transformer-fn :more-chars :grep-p :exit-codes)")) error("Keyword argument %s not one of (:initial-input :height :occur :update-fn :unwind-fn :index-fn :sort-fn :format-fn :display-transformer-fn :more-chars :grep-p :exit-codes)" :init-fn) ivy-configure(swiper-isearch :occur swiper-occur :init-fn swiper--isearch-init :update-fn auto :unwind-fn swiper--isearch-unwind :format-fn swiper-isearch-format-function) require(swiper) byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\300\303!\210\304\305\306\307\310\311\312\313&\007\207" [require swiper compile dired custom-declare-group counsel nil "Completion functions using Ivy." :group matching :prefix "counsel-"] 8) require(counsel nil nil) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*-567389> nil "/home/user/.emacs.d/elisp/init-search.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 2379 load-with-code-conversion("/home/user/.emacs.d/elisp/init-search.el" "/home/giuliocentorame/.emacs.d/elisp/init-search.el" nil t) require(init-search) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/user/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 4295 load-with-code-conversion("/home/user/.emacs.d/init.el" "/home/giuliocentorame/.emacs.d/init.el" t t) load("/home/giuliocentorame/.emacs.d/init" t t) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1df6a1>)() command-line() normal-top-level()

To Reproduce

• Launch Emacs
• "y" when requested to update the packages
• Keep Emacs in the background

Expected behavior
Launching normally.

Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS and/or Distros: Linux Manjaro
• GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.10) of 2019-08-29

[MatthewZMD]

This is weird, I have never seen this error before. I also have Manjaro.

Can you try to pinpoint the package or the file that's causing the error? Maybe start by commenting out half of the in init.el and so on?

[GiulioCentorame]

Did a couple of tries and commenting out (require 'init-search) allows to load the init.el file correctly (minus some bytecomp errors)

[GiulioCentorame]

I tried to comment/uncomment parts of init-search.el and I think the culprit is the loading script for ivy, it works without it

[MatthewZMD]

I think you should create an issue at ivy regarding this, I cannot reproduce at all

[MatthewZMD]

Closed as unreproducible