Emacs melpa failed to download gnu archive

Viewed 7k times. Improve this question. Drew I had the same experience. I removed melpa from my list of package archives and proceeded as usual.

The next day I put it back and it worked OK. No comment on the underyling cause. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. A similar error of mine "fail to download 'melpa' archive" was solved by installing the most recent version of gnutls-bin 3.

Unfortunately, there's little I can do about that besides find mirrors. In any case, I'll consider the original issue resolved and close this. Feel free to follow up here if you have more to add. Hi hlissner It would be helpful to have a doom-based mirror. Seems like Not sure if safe or not so use at own risk. I mention some better alternatives in another thread. I would recommend them over employing an uncertain mirror. Have the same on emacs Had to run with emacs --insecure , nothing else helped.

Skip to content. Star New issue. Jump to bottom. Labels 1. Milestone v Copy link. I keep getting the following error: Contacting host: melpa. Would upgrading Emacs help? Is there a newer downloadable build for Mac OS X?

We moved on to On Here same problem with emacs Show 1 more comment. The simple way to fix it is to upgrade to Emacs Lei Zhao Lei Zhao 8 8 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Do you by any chance know a solution that works without root privileges? I am on Emacs For anyone else that doesn't have the signature problem, try to initialise package M-x package-initialize. Rabiee H. Rabiee 4, 3 3 gold badges 20 20 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges.

This helped. Does anyone one know what causes the state that is fixed by initializing packages? My issue was that I was missing gpg gnupg. On OSX I solved this by using brew install gpg. William Denman 2, 27 27 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Something gone wrong the the melpa archive? Ran apt-get upgrade and found that there were patches to libssl1. Maybe we should put monit on the build servers and have it alert us when a certain threshold of disk usage is exceeded?

Any thoughts welcomed. Please check out , which is a more recent ticket about the same error message, and try some of the tests there in order to debug the issue on your machine. Had this problem today in Windows It works, it's of course also not ideal, but I don't know what else to do in Windows I see this right now.

I'm trying to install use-package and following the instructions on their page. The problem is most likely that your Emacs doesn't support https, but seeing the error message would help. I forgot package-initialize. Sorry about that. For anyone who might come across this thread because of the same error: I had the issue. As soon as I prepended 'http' the error went away.