Spacemacs setup instructions didn't work for me.

[muldoon2007]

I'm using Spacemacs for the first time, just to try it out, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious.

I'm on MacOS 10.15 and Emacs 27. I usually use the Prelude configuration but just was giving Spacemacs a try by setting my Emacs home to a custom location in my ~/.emacs file:

(setq use-custom-emacs-home t) 

(when use-custom-emacs-home
  (setq user-emacs-directory
        "~/spacemacs/.emacs.d/"
        ))   ; defaults to ~/.emacs.d/

(load (expand-file-name "init.el" user-emacs-directory))

After following the instructions here, I got this error mesage when loading Spacemacs:

(Spacemacs) --> installing package: org-fc@dotfile... [1/1]
Fetcher: git
Source: https://git.sr.ht/~l3kn/org-fc

Updating /Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-audio.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-audio.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-awk.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-awk.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-cache.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-cache.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-compat.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-compat.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-dashboard.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-dashboard.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-hydra.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-hydra.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-keymap-hint.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-keymap-hint.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-type-cloze.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-type-cloze.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-type-double.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-type-double.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-type-normal.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-type-normal.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-type-text-input.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-type-text-input.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc-type-vocab.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc-type-vocab.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/org-fc.el -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/org-fc.el
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/awk => /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/awk
/Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/build/org-fc/demo.org -> /var/folders/ht/c9s4jrmn5nl3v0hf1wl2jxww39j74k/T/org-fcNw3ZY8/org-fc-20201121.227/demo.org
Wrote /Users/mmuldoon/spacemacs/.emacs.d/.cache/quelpa/packages/org-fc-readme.txt
Auto-evilification could not remap these functions in map ‘archive-mode-map’:
   - ‘archive-chgrp-entry’ originally mapped on ‘G’
Auto-evilification could not remap these functions in map ‘tar-mode-map’:
   - ‘tar-chgrp-entry’ originally mapped on ‘G’
Parsing tar file...done
Error getting PACKAGE-DESC: (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
(Spacemacs) Error: 
An error occurred while installing org-fc (error: (wrong-type-argument package-desc nil))

I'm going to stick with Prelude for a bit but any pointers on getting this working right would be great.

[l3kn]

I don't have a spacemacs setup to test this on so I'll assume this is related to https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/8901 and has been resolved since then.

If not, feel free to reopen this issue.