From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Prije Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13930: Emacs doesn't cope well if it can't access/create .emacs.d Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:01:23 +0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e01177913a2bdaf04d7b68854 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363079833 28646 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2013 09:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13930@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 12 10:17:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UFLKw-0003R8-2H for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:17:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFLKZ-0002KH-NU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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charset=ISO-8859-1 I built and reproduced the same problem with: $ ./src/emacs --version GNU Emacs 24.2.1 On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It does exactly the same thing with --debug-init (says "creating > directory: > > permission denied...") and supplies no further information. > > I think --debug-init is for debugging an init file, right? It's not > getting > > as far as loading the init file so it won't be able to debug it. > > Can you try it with a more recent Emacs? E.g. 24.2 or 24.3? > I remember we fixed some bugs at some point that caused creation of > .emacs.d before there's a real need for it. > > > Stefan > --089e01177913a2bdaf04d7b68854 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I built and reproduced the same problem with:

$ ./src/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.2.1
<= div>


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontr= eal.ca> wrote:
> It does exactly the same thing with --debug-init (sa= ys "creating directory:
> permission denied...") and supplies no further information.
> I think --debug-init is for debugging an init file, right? =A0It's= not getting
> as far as loading the init file so it won't be able to debug it.
Can you try it with a more recent Emacs? =A0E.g. 24.2 or 24.3?
I remember we fixed some bugs at some point that caused creation of
.emacs.d before there's a real need for it.


=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Stefan

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