> > One weird thing in the above warning is //. Is // really what you see? >
If you mean the "//" in the following line: Warning (emacs): Emacs reader failed to read data in "~/.cache/org-persist//gc-lock.eld". The error was: "End of file during parsing" then I would say that it is what I'm really seeing as I just copy-and-pasted that line from my emacs window.