bug#22177: 25.1.50; Error retrieving: http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/queue-0.1.1.el "incomprehensible buffer"

[Mark Karpov]

For more than one month my Emacs configuration doesn't build on Travis
CI anymore because of this:

https://travis-ci.org/mrkkrp/dot-emacs#L1722

Python script used for testing is here (this is trivial, you don't need
to speak Python to understand what it does):

https://github.com/mrkkrp/dot-emacs/blob/master/test-startup.py

I've seen this topic:

http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/package-el-problems-autoload-url-insert-buffer-contents-td376802.html

If I remember correctly this “solution” changed error message, but it's
still there. Previously my testing worked, now something is definitely
not right, and it's still not fixed.

Last successful build happened according to commit history on November
11. Maybe this may help you.




In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.5)
 of 2015-12-08
Repository revision: 6148555ee5a3d0139ae517803718b3e0357933c7
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11800000
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: iλ

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  global-git-commit-mode: t
  async-bytecomp-package-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  aggressive-indent-mode: t
  rainbow-delimiters-mode: t
  whitespace-mode: t
  hl-todo-mode: t
  flyspell-mode: t
  flycheck-color-mode-line-mode: t
  flycheck-mode: t
  yas-global-mode: t
  yas-minor-mode: t
  vimish-fold-global-mode: t
  vimish-fold-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  rich-minority-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  ido-vertical-mode: t
  ido-ubiquitous-mode: t
  ido-everywhere: t
  highlight-line-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  delete-selection-mode: t
  cyphejor-mode: t
  ace-popup-menu-mode: t
  smartparens-global-mode: t
  smartparens-mode: t
  modalka-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill
  transient-mark-mode: t
  auto-fill-mode: 1

Recent messages:
Modalka mode enabled in current buffer
Saving file /home/mark/projects/programs/svod/svod/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG...
Wrote /home/mark/projects/programs/svod/svod/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG
Git finished [2 times]
Reverting (up to) 3 file-visiting buffer(s)...
(No buffers need to be reverted)
Type C-h i to view popup manual, ? to describe an argument or action.
Running git push -v origin master:refs/heads/master [2 times]
Git finished
Quit
next-line: End of buffer

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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Memory information:
((conses 16 626257 175775)
 (symbols 48 50963 32)
 (miscs 40 1619 3732)
 (strings 32 129570 50881)
 (string-bytes 1 3825477)
 (vectors 16 77393)
 (vector-slots 8 1937075 148483)
 (floats 8 604 2400)
 (intervals 56 860 1768)
 (buffers 976 38)
 (heap 1024 89506 17511))