gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated

[jammyatjammy]

Hi. I'm new here. I asked this on superuser 
(http://superuser.com/questions/837362/gnutls-c-0-emacs-fatal-error-the-tls-connection-was-non-properly-terminate)
 but got no response.

I'm trying to run emacs 24.4-1 on up-to-date Arch Linux. My dotfiles have gone 
a bit awry, so I cleared out my ~/.emacs.d/ and put in it an init.el with this 
content (taken verbatim from here 
(http://wikemacs.org/wiki/El-get#Installation)):

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")

(unless (require 'el-get nil t)
  (url-retrieve
   "https://raw.github.com/dimitri/el-get/master/el-get-install.el";
   (lambda (s)
     (end-of-buffer)
     (eval-print-last-sexp))))

Upon starting `emacs --debug-init`, I get the minibuffer message:

gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: The TLS connection was non-properly 
terminated.

After a while, it moves onto `Indenting region...done`(!?), which flickers 
occasionally. Then, in the main buffer (which previously contained:

Cloning into 'el-get'...
POST git-upload-pack (852 bytes)

) I get the extra line:

Congrats, el-get is installed and ready to serve!

However, this is not the case. Running `el-get-install` `evil` eventually 
yields:

error in process sentinel: Wrong type argument: listp, 
"df48f6d0aee048d76de822433b84f528"

after placing a few files in my ~/.emacs.d:

> ls ~/.emacs.d/
el-get/  init.el
> ls ~/.emacs.d/el-get/
el-get/  undo-tree/

I've tried reïnstalling emacs and gnutls via pacman -S, but that hasn't helped.