Unable to nstall new packages

Cross posting from the discourse channel, hope that’s legit.

Hi, I think something went wrong with my installation…

Lately I haven’t been able to install new packages using (package! ...) and packages installed with package -install are not recognized after restarting emcas. In addition, whenever I try to sync my config it takes a long time, and I see it goes over all of the currently installed packages, as if to fetch and rebuild them…

Another thing is that I removed the ui: workspace module from init.el, but it has not actually been removed. I get no errors from the doctor or while syncing. I’m not sure what to make of it…