Hmmm ... While trying to investigate one bug I have run into another odd one: * emacs version: GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 23, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.15.12) of 2022-09-20 * org version: Org mode version 9.5.5 (release_9.5.5-804-gf1a197 @ /home/dortmann/src/git-org-mode/lisp/) These two lines are in my *Messages* buffer: File mode specification error: (void-function org-element-cache-reset) Error during redisplay: (jit-lock-function 1) signaled (void-variable org-element-citation-prefix-re) I ran this: dortmann@ddo-linux:.emacs.d$ emacs -Q --debug-init asdf.el ... and then ran eval-buffer. Where asdf.el has this content: (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/dortmann/src/git-org-mode/lisp") (require 'org) (setq org-capture-templates       `(("c" "Item to current clocked task" checkitem        (clock)        "%i%?" :prepend t :empty-lines 1))) Then I loaded asdf.org which has this: * TODO start clock on this test item The result is the failure message above.  :-/