I am developing a package, however, suddently, where I try to run ]test I get a crash. A potential reason is that I pasted some code into the REPL which contained a using ... statement for a package I did not want to add to the package, however, I clicked the wrong button so the REPL automatically…

It does indeed look like you have a corrupted, probably truncated, registry file. You can probably solve it with pkg> registry remove General pkg> registry add

Maybe it is a general thing? I tried to check ]st in another place on my computer and got a ERROR: Unexpected end of data : General.tar ERROR: EOFError: read end of file Stacktrace: [1] (::Base.var"#wait_locked#832")(s::Base.PipeEndpoint, buf::IOBuffer, nb::Int64) @ Base ./stream.jl:978 [2]…

[image] GunnarFarneback: registry add Doing this actually yields exactly the same problem: _ _ _(_)_ | Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org (_) | (_) (_) | _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help. | | | | | | |/ _` | | | | |_| | | | (_|…

Not this, this is a different problem on an unrelated machine :frowning:

Actually, turns out ChatGPT managed to figure it out (!), this is the solution: julia> import Pkg julia> Pkg.Registry.rm("General"; force=true) # ok if it says it's not present julia> Pkg.Registry.add("General") julia> Pkg.Registry.update()

That’s effectively the same as I proposed, apart from the last update, which isn’t needed to resolve the problem.

ok, there probably are some odd differences that had an effect here for some reason - hwen I ran yours I got the error again. Looking at the code it is the same principle though, maybe something silly like using ] mode caused the difference. Thanks for the help either way though!

Suddenly can no longer run test (due to breaking `]add Package` midway?)

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giordano August 24, 2025, 5:46pm 4

Is this related to Running out of disk space on HPC without really doing anything unusual where you have reached a quota and your registry can’t be downloaded correctly?

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Suddenly can no longer run test (due to breaking `]add Package` midway?)

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