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I use Emacs 27.2 on Windows 10. Working with packages used to work, but now I am getting Failed to download ‘gnu’ archive., when calling for instance M-x package-refresh-contents. I tried M-x toggle-debug-on-error, and in the call stack I see Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp \357\273\277) So the BOM symbol is involved.

Update 1 I have confirmed that running emacs -Q makes the error go away. So then I have stripped my init file to contain only:

(setq user-emacs-directory "C:/users/avpas/.emacs.d")

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

To clearify, my HOME is set to other than C:/users/avpas. At this point, the error persists, but goes away when I remove the first row (setq user-emacs-directory "C:/users/avpas/.emacs.d").

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  • Set debug-on-error to t and show the backtrace here.
    – Drew
    Jun 4, 2022 at 16:42
  • Do you see the same thing if you start Emacs with emacs -Q? If not, bisect your init file to find the culprit. If yes, provide a step-by-step recipe to reproduce the problem, starting from emacs -Q.
    – Drew
    Jun 4, 2022 at 16:43

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So I looked up to reset the Emacs's state, which is saved in .emacs.d directory (user-emacs-directory). I created a backup copy of that directory. Then I looked inside it, and the most suspicious looking file was network-security.data. I deleted it and restarted Emacs. Voila, the problem was gone.

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