From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Blicher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: autosave Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:00:28 -0400 (EDT) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206080100.g5810Sbw007341@mail.nj.nec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023498205 987 127.0.0.1 (8 Jun 2002 01:03:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17GUdY-0000Fh-00 for ; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 03:03:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17GUdG-0001MT-00; Fri, 07 Jun 2002 21:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nj.nec.com ([138.15.200.209]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17GUan-0001LM-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2002 21:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.nj.nec.com (mail [138.15.200.209]) by mail.nj.nec.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5810TGE007344 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:00:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from geeu.nj.nec.com (IDENT:blicher@geeu.nj.nec.com [138.15.168.58]) by mail.nj.nec.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5810Sbw007341 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2002 21:00:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1868 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1868 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-04-08 on porky.devel.redhat.com configured using `configure i386-redhat-linux --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gcc --with-pop --with-sound' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.iso885915 locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: When unable to create (or write to?) some autosave dir .emacs.d or below, retries forever. This occurred when I was running with a home dir that I couldn't write to (because I was root on a different machine). Never had this problem in versions 20.4 and before. Since nothing stops the constant error repeats, it is difficult to check the exact state. --peter ignore recent input; this is a different invocation. Recent input: M-x m a n s u Recent messages: Reading directory /etc/...done Fontifying etc... (regexps.......) Reading directory /etc/...done Note: file is write protected Loading man...done Invoking man su in the background Please wait: making up the su man page... su man page made up Loading tabify...done Loading emacsbug...done -- A. Peter Blicher NEC Research Institute 609-951-2716 4 Independence Way 609-951-2488 fax Princeton, NJ 08540-6634 USA blicher@research.nj.nec.com