emacs icicles error on start

Question

Icicles (v.22.0) installed from elpa (package-list-packages)

Emacs version

$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1

Output on emacs start

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/exu/.emacs.d/init.el':

Symbol's function definition is void: hexrgb-canonicalize-defined-colors

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the cause of the error in your initialization file. Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

Debug init below: Link to GIST error dump

Answer 1

You should not get such an error. Sorry for your trouble. The error message is saying that something tried to call function hexrgb-canonicalize-defined-colors but it was never defined. It was not defined no doubt because you do not have file hexrgb.el in your load-path. That's OK, but in that case, it should never be called.

hexrgb.el is an optional file for using Icicles (but it is recommended) -- see optional Icicles libraries.

Follow up by email, if you can -- that's easiest: M-x icicle-send-bug-report. Let me know what Icicles files you have etc. Preferably, test by starting from emacs -Q (no init file). Set debug-on-error to t, add the Icicles files to your load-path, M-x-load-library icicles, etc.

For debugging, use only the source Icicles files (*.el, not byte-compiled, *.elc). Remove any byte-compiled Icicles files from your load-path. Thx -- Drew