From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [jidanni@jidanni.org: just try once to create ~/.emacs.d] Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:38:16 -0500 Message-ID: <87wtf6oxjr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <873bhvqh5g.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141760262 17070 80.91.229.2 (7 Mar 2006 19:37:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 07 20:37:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGhzy-00087X-I3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:37:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGhzx-0002TQ-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FGhyX-0008Ug-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FGhyT-0008O1-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:36:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FGhyS-0008Lu-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:36:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.19.6.82] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FGi18-0005Ig-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 10CD7120920; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:38:16 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Dan Jacobson In-Reply-To: <873bhvqh5g.fsf@jidanni.org> (Dan Jacobson's message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:37:15 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51333 Archived-At: Dan Jacobson writes: > Odd, sometimes I can reproduce this, minutes later I can't. > today. But user nobody should have no way to write things to change > the state of the system, except in /tmp. And ii didn't write there. > emacs -q didn't reproduce it, but then -q or not, sometime didn't > reproduce it. Anyway, it takes about a minute to show up, ^X^B will > show the *Messages* buffer grown. Could you try to figure out what Lisp code is trying to save to .emacs, e.g., by setting debug-on-error to t.