github-copilot: Error loading autoloads

[komali2]

Description

I'm trying to install the Github Copilot layer: https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+web-services/github-copilot/README.html#install

When I install per the instructions and restart spacemacs, I get the following error:

Error loading autoloads: (file-missing Cannot open load file No such file or directory /home/user/.emacs.legacy/elpa/30.0/develop/copilot-20240907.62759/copilot-autoloads)

I've confirmed the copilot directory exists. It looks like this:

  -rw-r--r--  1 user user 1219 Nov 13 15:17   packages.el
  -rw-r--r--  1 user user  695 Aug 19 13:54   README.org

No copilot commands are available.

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Have github-copilot in layer list
• Start emacs
• Observe the error in the message buffer
• Observe that no github copilot mode commands are available

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔

An error in the message buffer.

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄

Github copilot commands are available.

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 30.0.50
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. d52d633)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(ruby php nginx csv lua emacs-lisp helm (lsp :variables lsp-idle-delay 0.5)
      treemacs rust yaml go
      (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-return-key-behavior 'nil
                       auto-completion-tab-key-behavior 'cycle
                       auto-completion-enable-sort-by-usage t
                       auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip 'manual
                       auto-completion-private-snippets-directory nil)
      better-defaults git markdown
      (org :variables org-directory "~/Org" org-projectile-file
           "~/Org/projects.org" org-enable-roam-support t
           org-enable-org-journal-support t org-roam-directory "~/Org/notes/"
           org-roam-index-file "~/Org/notes/20200526213916-index.org"
           org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/inbox.org")
           org-roam-v2-ack t org-enable-hugo-support t org-startup-indented t
           org-refile-targets
           '((nil :maxlevel . 9) (org-agenda-files :maxlevel . 9))
           org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil org-refile-use-outline-path t
           org-startup-with-inline-images t org-image-actual-width '(300)
           org-enable-roam-ui t org-enable-roam-protocol t)
      (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
      (spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-by-default nil) c-c++
      semantic syntax-checking version-control javascript python sql html
      (typescript :variables typescript-indent-level 2)
      (node :variables node-add-modules-path t) racket tern common-lisp colors
      react (svelte :variables svelte-backend 'lsp) tree-sitter github-copilot)

• System configuration features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Backtrace 🐾

<<BACKTRACE IF RELEVANT>>

[komali2]

This error occurs if you have installed the copilot.el package previously manually, so it exists in your elpa directory but not in such a way that spacemacs put it there and did some magic.

rm -r /home/user/.emacs.legacy/elpa/30.0/develop/copilot-20240907.62759 , as in, deleting the copilot elpa directory,

and restarting emacs resolves the issue.