That's curious. Achim Gratz writes:
> Actually, you will need to customize that variable if you want to use > ditaa. But the error is that ob-ditaa is missing a (require > 'org-compat), I've pushed a fix for that. But you may still do your > own customizations for Org too early, you should defer them to after > package-initialize has run. First, thanks so much for your help. My whole life is in Emacs and Org. My initial report should be amended, because after a few cycles, the error came back even with org-clock-persistence-insinuate commented out. I did not run and save a backtrace of that. I don't use ditaa at all, and I have no mention of it in my init file. Something else must have been pretty far off the rails to be calling it. Finally, the only things before package-initialize in my init file were some general Emacs interface settings (tool bar off, some others, I can post a list if anyone is interested). Nothing org related was before it. Nonetheless, when I move package-initialize to be the first thing in the init file, the problem goes away. Thanks again for your help. Best regards, Terry -- T.F. Torrey