Adding aliases to internal nodes causes "wrong side of point" error

Troubleshooting
1

The problem

I keep running into problems when I try to add aliases to an internal node. Does this happen to anyone else?

An example

Suppose I have a file like this:

...
  #+title: everything
  * values
    :PROPERTIES:
    :ID:       88eb4ff5-44c3-445e-a7e8-144ee1002203
    :END:
  ** detachment
  ** discipline
  ** gratitude
  ** humor
  ** love
  ** ...

If I try to add the following right after the :id: line:

    :ROAM_ALIASES: "some values"

I get an error like this:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)")
  org-element-paragraph-parser(8498 (8498))
  #<subr F616e6f6e796d6f75732d6c616d626461_anonymous_lambda_38>(8498 element nil nil)
  org-element--parse-to(8504)
  org-element-at-point()
  org-element-context()
  org-roam-link-replace-at-point()
  org-roam-link-replace-all()
  run-hooks(before-save-hook)
  basic-save-buffer(t)
  save-buffer(1)
  funcall-interactively(save-buffer 1)
  command-execute(save-buffer)

and am unable to save the file. If I exit org-mode for, say, text-mode, I can save. But then when I reenable org-mode I keep getting the same error.

A half-solution

Every now and then I’m somehow able to make it work, but I don’t know how. Usually I give up and just make a separate file out of the node. (Adding aliases to file-level nodes, rather than internal nodes, has never given me problems.)

My system

I run Emacs on NixOS using Plasma (KDE). Some relevant version numbers:

GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.18.2, Xaw3d scroll bars)

Org mode version 9.7.27 (9.7.27-74dde3 @ /nix/store/xdqbn7fmhk1j9w7pgk0rvp6yganqa9wz-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/org-9.7.27/)

When I call org-roam-version I get another error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (search-failed "\\(?:;; Version: \\([^z-a]*?$\\)\\)")
  org-roam-version()
  funcall-interactively(org-roam-version)
  command-execute(org-roam-version record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "org-roam-version" "org-roam-ver")
  funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "org-roam-version" "org-roam-ver")
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)

but I think it’s the version from 2025 March 24, because when I search my /nix/store folder for org-roam I get a lot of hits like this:

./q2hfbdcccagpw68y90d6p0mg0byfbjs7-emacs-org-roam-20250324.2140.drv

Apologies

I realize those aren’t the super-latest versions but they’re the latest that are packaged for the stable NixOS channel. I would love to know if anyone on a more recent version of anything sees similar problems when adding aliases to an internal node.

2

I have had a similar thing happen with my very large journal.org file. It comes and goes, but hasn’t been systematic; I actually never narrowed it down to using aliases. Not at all helpful as a bug report, but at least it lets you know you’re not crazy, haha.

3

probably org-element-cache bugging out sometimes; keeping org updated and remembering to recompile all packages that depend on org should fix intermittent bugs if they have been caught. This problem surely emanates from org directly.