# Org-roam-dailies-capture-today fails on emacs 27.2

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-dailies-capture-today-fails-on-emacs-27-2/2142>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-dailies-capture-today-fails-on-emacs-27-2/2142 "2021-10-20T22:37:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![alanz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/alanz/32/717_2.png) [@alanz](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/alanz)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-dailies-capture-today-fails-on-emacs-27-2/2142/1 "2021-10-20T22:37:00Z")

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I use straight.el, and do daily updates.

After updating today, to org at 849dd68b27156722e79f9bc7339ef313c3eeca6, I get “max-specpdl-size exceeded” errors when I try to capture a new daily note, or in fact open any of the org-roam files.

But if I upgrade to emacs 28.0.50 then it works again.

I tried to track it down via stepping in the debugger, as there is no backtrace when it fails, but could not identify it. It did seem to happen when `org-persist-write-all` was called, but it was hard to tell.

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-dailies-capture-today-fails-on-emacs-27-2/2142/2 "2021-10-21T06:37:52Z")

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I don’t have the problem. I updated all my packages including Org-roam. `org-roam-dailies-capture-today` just worked now. No issue with Org-roam files, either.

I use Emacs 27.2 and Org 9.5. I use the stock `package.el`. `org-version` tells me this: 9.5-g0a86ad.

Perhaps you might like to try upgrading Org to 9.5? It’s been released. I have done it via ELPA, I think – nothing special, just plain `package-list-packages`.

(Or downgrade Org if that commit is ahead of releases? – it might be too new to be stable?)

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**Author:** ![alanz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/alanz/32/717_2.png) [@alanz](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/alanz)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-dailies-capture-today-fails-on-emacs-27-2/2142/3 "2021-10-21T21:05:37Z")

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Thanks for the reply. I downgraded to the earlier org version and it worked. And I see a fix landed in org master today too.