{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370/events","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370","id":111218034,"number":3370,"title":"evil-mc fails to install","user":{"login":"rebcabin","id":207047,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207047?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin","html_url":"https://github.com/rebcabin","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rebcabin/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/labels/Install","name":"Install","color":"207de5"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/labels/Microsoft%20Windows","name":"Microsoft Windows","color":"207de5"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/labels/OS%20X","name":"OS X","color":"207de5"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":19,"created_at":"2015-10-13T16:28:40Z","updated_at":"2015-10-23T23:07:45Z","closed_at":null,"body":"on a fresh clone of developer branch and a freshly updated git:\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ git --version\r\ngit version 2.6.1\r\n```\r\n\r\nand a fresh clone of spacemacs develop branch, with .spacemacs deleted:\r\n```\r\nSystem Info\r\n\r\n    OS: darwin\r\n    Emacs: 24.5.1\r\n    Spacemacs: 0.105.0\r\n    Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. e72dd8a)\r\n    Distribution: spacemacs\r\n    Layers:\r\n\r\n    (emacs-lisp)\r\n```\r\n\r\nI get errors installing evil-mc:\r\n\r\n```\r\n    (Bootstrap) Installing evil...\r\n    (Bootstrap) Installing evil-leader...\r\n    Found 71 new package(s) to install...\r\n    --> fetching new package repository indexes...\r\n    --> installing spacemacs:evil-mc... [22/71]An error occurred while installing evil-mc (error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil))\r\n    --> installing spacemacs:window-numbering... [71/71]\r\n    Found 1 new package(s) to install...\r\n    --> fetching new package repository indexes...\r\n    --> installing spacemacs:evil-mc... [1/1]An error occurred while installing evil-mc (error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil))\r\n\r\n[110 packages loaded in 229.076s]\r\n```\r\nhere is backtrace from `emacs --debug-init\r\n\r\n```\r\nDebugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)\r\n  tar--check-descriptor(nil)\r\n  tar-get-file-descriptor(\"PaxHeader/PaxHeader-pkg.el\")\r\n  package-tar-file-info()\r\n  byte-code(\"\\303\\304!\u0018r\bq\\210\\305\\216\t\\306=\\203\u0019"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/comments/150712802","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370#issuecomment-150712802","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/3370","id":150712802,"user":{"login":"vkz","id":917220,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/917220?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz","html_url":"https://github.com/vkz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/vkz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-23T23:07:45Z","updated_at":"2015-10-23T23:07:45Z","body":"same bug here on a freshly installed `develop` branch on OSX Yosemite. Do I need it? I excluded it for now but would this compromise my experience of **Spacemacs**?"}}