gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated

Question

I'm trying to run emacs 24.4-1 on up-to-date Arch Linux. My dotfiles have gone a bit awry, so I cleared out my ~/.emacs.d/ and put in it an init.el with this content (taken verbatim from here):

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")

(unless (require 'el-get nil t)
  (url-retrieve
   "https://raw.github.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el"
   (lambda (s)
     (end-of-buffer)
     (eval-print-last-sexp))))

Upon starting emacs --debug-init, I get the minibuffer message:

gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.

After a while, it moves onto Indenting region...done(!?), which flickers occasionally. Then, in the main buffer (which previously contained:

Cloning into 'el-get'...
POST git-upload-pack (852 bytes)

) I get the extra line:

Congrats, el-get is installed and ready to serve!

However, this is not the case. Running el-get-install evil eventually yields:

error in process sentinel: Wrong type argument: listp, "df48f6d0aee048d76de822433b84f528"

after placing a few files in my ~/.emacs.d:

> ls ~/.emacs.d/
el-get/  init.el
> ls ~/.emacs.d/el-get/
el-get/  undo-tree/

I've tried reïnstalling emacs and gnutls via pacman -S, but that hasn't helped.

Answer 1

It seems that this is a partially known issue with el-get, and it's easier to switch to another package manager (MELPA in my case).

Thanks to @npostavs for linking me to some further discussion.

Answer 2

Have same error on Debian Sid. After some time Emacs crashed.

Updating libgnutls packages fix error:

$ tail /var/log/apt/history.log
Start-Date: 2015-02-19  19:00:54
Upgrade: libgnutls-deb0-28:i386 (3.3.8-3, 3.3.8-5), libgnutls26:i386 (2.12.20-1, 2.12.23-18), libgnutls-openssl27:i386 (2.12.20-1, 3.3.8-5)
End-Date: 2015-02-19  19:01:00