Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument keymapp nil) about helm-bibtex HOT 5 CLOSED

Hm, I can't reproduce this in the current development version of Emacs. I don't pass a keymap to easy-menu-add-item but according to the documentation that's ok.

Do you get the error when you run emacs -Q and eval the file helm-bibtex.el?

from helm-bibtex.

It is pretty strange.

This does not give an error.
01:00 $ mv .emacs newemacs.el
01:00 $ /Applications/Emacs\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -no-site-file --debug-init -l ./newemacs.el

But, this does.
01:01 $ mv newemacs.el .emacs.el
01:01 $ /Applications/Emacs\ 2.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -no-site-file --debug-init -l ./.emacs.el

Also, it gives an error if I rename the file .emacs, or init.el.

I am on OSX Yosemite. And it happens both with 24.4 Emacs and 24.5 Emacs.

The minimal emacs with which I can reproduce this issue is:
(require 'package)
(setq package-list '(use-package))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
(package-initialize)
(require 'use-package)
(setq use-package-verbose t)
(use-package helm-bibtex
:init
(setq helm-bibtex-bibliography '("/work/mypapers/mynewrefs.bib")
helm-bibtex-library-path '("/work/papers")
helm-bibtex-pdf-open-function 'helm-open-file-with-default-tool
)
)

from helm-bibtex.

-no-site-file is not the same as -Q. Is it possible that there are compiled versions of those files (.elc)?

from helm-bibtex.

The issued is solved. I didn't use (require 'helm-config). The error does not appear anymore after I use it.

Thanks for looking though.

from helm-bibtex.

Thanks for the update. Perhaps, we should (require helm-config) in helm-bibtex then.

from helm-bibtex.