Hi, After further investigation, it is the call to the function (org-agenda-to-appt) inside the function bh/org-agenda-to-appt that is causing the error. The body of the function: ; Erase all reminders and rebuilt reminders for today from the agenda (defun bh/org-agenda-to-appt () (interactive) (setq appt-time-msg-list nil) (org-agenda-to-appt) ) I will deactivate the call to bh/org-agenda-to-appt, so I can have a normal life again and use emacs and org-mode without any problem. I will review and clean my configuration when times permit. I am anyway curious to know why that function call generate such error. Thanks for your help, Roland. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Roland Everaert wrote: > Hi John, > > I am using Bernt's configuration (at least a part of it) for years without > problems until I switch to org 8. > > I hame commented most of my init.el file and uncomment bits of > configuration lines one at a time. and I have found where is located the > problem. I have know to investigate why it is a problem. > > The offending line is (bh/org-agenda-to-appt), this is one of the function > from the configuration of Bernt, so I have now to check my version against > the one on his page to see if he doesn't update it. > > And to answer your question, the loaded version of org-mode is "Org-mode > version beta_8.3 (beta_8.3-16-g16c71d6 @ > /home/reveatwork/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/)" > > I will also perform a "make clean > make" of my installation of org-mode > just in case some their is some garbage left from previous version. > > > Thanks for your help, > > > Roland. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:55 PM, John Hendy wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Roland Everaert >> wrote: >> > I have upgraded using git on a Linux fedora 20 64 bit. >> > >> > I perform the following commands from the directory of org-mode: >> > >> > make clean >> > git pull >> > make >> >> I usually do git pull > make clean > make, but don't know if that >> makes a difference, so that's probably fine. >> >> > I have also read the following page: >> > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-8.0.html >> > >> > And search for all variables in my configuration that start with >> org-export, >> > but I have none of them. >> >> Well, I'm interested in the original error, "Autoloading failed to >> define function org-element-cache-reset", not anything to do with >> org-export. You should be able to start emacs without any errors, and >> I think that's the primary thing to troubleshoot first. >> >> > My configuration is heavily inspired by this article: >> > http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html >> >> Bernt's page is one of the most advanced orgmode setups documented >> that I've ever seen. I wouldn't get too deep into that before figuring >> out what's going on at the basic level. >> >> > >> > I have quickly browsed it in case some specific changes needs to be >> done, >> > but the only ones concernes the exporters that I have not configured >> yet. >> > >> > Which lines from the my ~/.emacs.d/init.el, would you like to see? >> >> How are you telling Emacs where Orgmode lives? My suggestion would be >> the following: >> >> Create a minimal .emacs file with just the following (change path to >> wherever your orgmode git repo is): >> >> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/org.git/lisp/") >> >> From a command line, run: >> >> $ emacs -Q >> >> Then from Emacs, run: >> >> M-x load-file [press enter] /path/to/minimal-config/from/above [press >> enter] >> >> Then run: >> >> M-x org-version >> >> You should get something like this: >> >> Org-mode version 8.2.6 (release_8.2.6-950-ge599e8 @ >> /home/jwhendy/.elisp/org.git/lisp/) >> >> If you don't get any errors, close emacs, copy some lines from your >> "real" config into that minimal config, and repeat the process (emacs >> -Q -> M-x load-file...) until you get the error again. Then you'll >> know what's causing it. Doing it this way helps know that you've at >> least got the "right" Org-mode loaded (not the one built in to your >> Emacs), and from there we can track the issue. >> >> Once that's all set, getting exporters going is a pretty simple >> matter. I have this in my .emacs: >> >> (require 'ox-latex) >> (require 'ox-html) >> (require 'ox-beamer) >> (require 'ox-md) >> (require 'ox-odt) >> (require 'ox-taskjuggler) >> >> (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes >> '("beamer" >> "\\documentclass\[presentation\]\{beamer\}" >> ("\\section\{%s\}" . "\\section*\{%s\}") >> ("\\subsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsection*\{%s\}") >> ("\\subsubsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsubsection*\{%s\}"))) >> >> That handles it all for me. >> >> Also, please keep cc'ing the Org list. They know much more than I do, >> and as you provide more information can probably help you better than >> I can as well. >> >> >> Good luck! >> John >> >> >> > >> > >> > Roland. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:39 PM, John Hendy wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 30, 2014 4:48 AM, "Roland Everaert" >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Second part of the message: >> >> > >> >> > Information from M-x org-version: >> >> > >> >> > Org-mode version beta_8.3 (beta_8.3-16-g16c71d6 @ >> >> > /home/reveatwork/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org-mode/lisp/) >> >> > >> >> > I have downloaded the last version using git. >> >> >> >> Can you elaborate on your exact procedure for upgrading as well as >> posting >> >> relevant lines from .emacs? >> >> >> >> John >> >> >> >> > >> >> > How can I switch to a stable branch instead of the last beta, to >> check >> >> > if that solves the problem? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Thanks for your help. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Roland Everaert < >> reveatwork@gmail.com> >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> >> >> I have recently upgraded to org-mode version 8. Each time I start >> emacs >> >> >> I see the folloinwg error: >> >> >> >> >> >> error "Autoloading failed to define function >> org-element-cache-reset" >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> And some functionnality of org-mode doesn't seems to work anymore. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Informa >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >