Error when installing package

[buggymcbugfix]

Description

An error occurred while installing emoji-cheat-sheet-plus (error: (cl-assertion-failed (or (= (buffer-size tar-data-buffer) (buffer-size)) (eq tar-data-swapped (> (buffer-size tar-data-buffer) (buffer-size))))))

Reproduction guide

• add emoji to layers
• Start Emacs

I get this same error with other packages as well. What am I doing wrong?

System Info

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 25.1.50.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.21
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 0283f64)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(auto-completion emacs-lisp emoji git haskell markdown org pandoc
                 (spell-checking :variables spell-checking-enable-by-default nil)
                 syntax-checking version-control)

Messages

(Spacemacs) --> refreshing package archive: melpa... [1/3]
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Failed to download ‘melpa’ archive.
(Spacemacs) --> refreshing package archive: org... [2/3]
Contacting host: orgmode.org:80 2 times --> refreshing package archive: gnu... [3/3]
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
Failed to download ‘gnu’ archive.
(Spacemacs) --> installing package: emoji-cheat-sheet-plus@emoji... [1/1]
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Parsing tar file...done
smooth-scrolling enabled.
Spacemacs is ready.

[TheBB]

You probably just got a corrupted download. Clear packages, try again, possibly disable HTTPS, the usual.

[buggymcbugfix]

@TheBB How do I clear packages?

Edit: After browsing around in my .emacs.d I found and deleted anything to do with emoji, which is what I presume you mean when saying “clear packages”?

Have tried emacs --insecure, which doesn't make a difference.

An excerpt from my log:

(Spacemacs) --> refreshing package archive: melpa... [1/3]
Contacting host: melpa.org:443 [2 times]
Failed to download ‘melpa’ archive.
(Spacemacs) --> refreshing package archive: org... [2/3]
Contacting host: orgmode.org:80
(Spacemacs) --> refreshing package archive: gnu... [3/3]
Failed to download ‘gnu’ archive.
(Spacemacs) --> installing package: emoji-cheat-sheet-plus@emoji... [1/1]
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Parsing tar file...done

[buggymcbugfix]

I just noticed that company-emoji.el and .elc are both empty.

[TheBB]

You delete the folder(s) from .emacs.d/elpa

[buggymcbugfix]

Yes, I worked that out, but I still get the same error when trying to reinstall. Same when I use emacs --insecure.

[buggymcbugfix]

OK, so this seems to be an issue with emacs 25. Have reinstalled with latest stable and issue is gone.