Example code to reproduce the issue https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/295

test-lsp-mode-issue295.el

;;; Reproduce the issue https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/issues/295
;;; Usage: /path/to/emacs -nw -Q -l /path/to/test-lsp-mode-issue295.el
;;; Date: 2018-02-27_23.24.41

(toggle-debug-on-error)

;; ------------------------------------------------------------------

(setq user-emacs-directory (format "~/.emacs.d/%s/%s/" (file-name-base load-file-name) emacs-version))
(setq package-user-dir (concat user-emacs-directory "elpa/"))

(unless (load (concat "~/.emacs.d/elpa.el") t)
  (setq package-archives
        '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
          ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/"))))

(package-initialize)

(defun require-packages (&rest packages)
  (dolist (pkg packages)
    (unless (package-installed-p pkg)
      (package-refresh-contents)
      (package-install pkg))
    (require pkg)))

;; ------------------------------------------------------------------

(require-packages
 'lsp-mode
 'lsp-python)

(defun make-test-file ()
  (let ((test-file (concat (make-temp-file "test-lsp-mode-issue295--" 'dir "/") "main.py")))
    (with-temp-buffer
      (insert
       (format 
        "\"\"\"Generated at %s.\"\"\"" (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")))
      (write-region (point-min) (point-max) test-file))
    test-file))

(add-hook 'prog-major-mode  'lsp-prog-major-mode-enable)
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'lsp-python-enable)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.py\\'" . python-mode))

(add-hook 'after-init-hook
          (lambda ()
           (find-file (make-test-file))
            ))

(run-hooks 'after-init-hook)
;;; test-lsp-mode-issue295.el ends here

test-lsp-mode-issue295.png

⋊> ls -1 ~/.emacs.d/test-lsp-mode-issue295/27.0.50/elpa/
archives/
dash-20180206.2124/
epl-20180205.1249/
flycheck-20180224.1046/
lsp-mode-20180224.246/
lsp-python-20171021.254/
pkg-info-20150517.443/