On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, Rob Browning wrote: > > If you can tell what's going wrong, please consider filing bugs against > the relevant add-on packages, or contacting #debian-emacsen or > debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org.
Thanks. Showed up the culprit was initz package (which I don't use since quite a while back, anyway). Removing it: # emacs -nw -q --debug-init *Messages* buffer: run-hooks: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, initz package initz, version 0.0.11+20030603cvs-17.2, remove: # apt-get --purge remove initz ERROR: initz is broken - called emacs-package-remove as a new-style add-on, but has no compat file. # emacs -nw -q --debug-init Error gone. Ended up removing several packages (besides initz), for various reasons. The only one I regret seeing go away is: /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el Cheers, -- Cristian