I messed up my spacemacs config on Ubuntu - I have tried to wipe everything with rm -rf /.emacs.d and rm -rf /.spacemacs.d when I restart everything compiles and when I try to load Clojure it asks about loading the Clojure layer and when I open .spacemacs.d I still have my messed up configuration with several Clojures. I rebooted Ubuntu (WSL on Windows) and the same thing - I am thinking there is a cache someplace I need to Nuke -- I even removed emacs and recompiled it. Hos can I get back to ground Zero?
If your still having issues, the only places where Spacemacs should have files are:
• .emacs.d or .config/emacs for Spacemacs configuration itself
• .spacemacs (default user config location) or .spacemacs.d or where ever SPACEMACS_DIR environment variable is set to, e.g. Practicalli uses .config/spacemacs
SPC f e D will open up a diff tool between your user configuration and the Spacemacs default template, should you need help debugging the spacemacs user configuration
Or clone practicalli/spacemacs-config user configuration and feel free to hack...
Have you deleted the ~/.spacemacs file?
It's possible also that there's a ~/.emacs file. I think there's also an init dir that emacs sometimes checks, can dig that up if the above aren't sufficient.
Hmm, not seeing that in the docs, may have misremembered. Wouldn't be a bad idea to do
ls -a ~/ | grep emacs
just to see if anything else turns up.