From: Philippe Delavalade <philippe.delavalade@orange.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File .emacs not read (resolved)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:47:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171202104720.GA1409@magellan.machin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171130082646.GA1785@magellan.machin.org>
Le jeudi 30 novembre à 09:26, Philippe Delavalade a écrit :
> Hi.
>
> I'm using emacs 25.3.1 under linux ; I just upgraded slint-14.2 to 14.2.1rc2.
>
> Now when starting emacs as user philippe or root or others, it seems that
> ~/.emacs is not read and I obtain a window *warnings* saying :
>
> Error (initialization): User GDM has no home directory
A command
grep -i "gdm" /etc/*
showed me a bash script with the line
export LOGNAME="GDM"
I commented it and now everything looks clean.
Thanks for answers and apologies for my question.
--
Ph. Delavalade
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-02 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-30 8:26 File .emacs not read Philippe Delavalade
2017-12-02 10:47 ` Philippe Delavalade [this message]
2017-12-03 1:11 ` File .emacs not read (resolved) Emanuel Berg
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