Emacs cannot save customizations- init file not fully loaded

Question

When I try to check the "do not show this screen again" box and save at the Emacs default start buffer, I get an error: custom-save-all: Cannot save customizations, init file not fully loaded

My full output looks like:

Loading 00debian-vars...
No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default...
Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading debian-ispell...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done
Loading debian-ispell...done
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50slime.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/slime/slime-autoloads.elc...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50slime.el (source)...done
Loading /home/nathan/elisp/autoloads...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
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custom-save-all: Cannot save customizations; init file was not fully loaded

I have been tinkering with my .emacs file to no avail. It looks like this (I am trying to get install.el to work properly):

(load "~/elisp/autoloads" 'install)
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")
(require 'install.el)

If I try to C - X - C - E this code, I get errors in the buffer:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Required feature `install.el' was not provided")
  require(install\.el)
  eval((require (quote install\.el)))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)

~/elisp directory is present, and that's where my *.el files are located. So I'm kind of confused what's going wrong, as it seems I have the proper path names and syntax.

Any help would be amazing. Thank you, fellow Emacs hackers!

Answer 1

You need to use:

(require 'install)

without the .el