Comment # 22 on bug 1175487 from Dr. Werner Fink

Just tried a few packages from elpa .... installing works flawless but delete
shows

 Delete package ?xpm-1.0.4?? y
 Saving file /suse/werner/.gnu-emacs-custom...
 Wrote /suse/werner/.gnu-emacs-custom
 Package ?xpm-1.0.4? deleted.
 package--with-response-buffer-1: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

 Install package ?async-1.9.3?? y
 Saving file /suse/werner/.gnu-emacs-custom...
 Wrote /suse/werner/.gnu-emacs-custom
 Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443 [2 times]
 Parsing tar file...done
 Extracting...done
   INFO     Scraping files for async-autoloads.el... 
 Generating autoloads for async-bytecomp.el...done
 Generating autoloads for async-pkg.el...done
 Generating autoloads for async-test.el...done
 Generating autoloads for async.el...done
 Generating autoloads for dired-async.el...done
 Generating autoloads for smtpmail-async.el...done
   INFO     Scraping files for async-autoloads.el...done
 Wrote /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3/async-autoloads.el [2 times]
 Checking /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3... [2 times]
 Wrote /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3/async-bytecomp.elc
 Checking /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3... [2 times]
 Wrote /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3/async-test.elc
 Checking /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3...
 Wrote /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3/async.elc
 Checking /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3...
 Wrote /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3/dired-async.elc
 Checking /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3...
 Wrote /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3/smtpmail-async.elc
 Checking /suse/werner/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.3...
 Done (Total of 5 files compiled, 2 skipped)

The error has been thrown by package--with-response-buffer-1
which is the common lisp function defined in lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
and used by the macro package--with-response-buffer