From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:39:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7snymee.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8463a064-a5b3-23c6-1589-a6cc5f899b95@mousecar.com> <83o8mvyqeg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38502"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 14:40:22 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kBdg5-0009uQ-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39286 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBdg4-00054A-Lj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38558) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBdfm-00053f-PG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBdfm-0005Ry-FF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2772 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kBdfk-0002Hw-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:40:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from ken on Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:08:43 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123825 Archived-At: > From: ken > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:08:43 -0400 > > >> Loading loadup.el (source)... > >> dump mode: nil > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This indicates that Emacs cannot find the emacs.pdmp file. You should > > fix this problem before you continue investigating any further > > problems, because when Emacs doesn't find its dump file, all kinds of > > weird problems can happen. So everything you said until now is more > > or less unimportant, until you resolve the problem with the emacs.pdmp > > file. > > Thanks, but I know nothing at all about this file, never heard of it.  > Looking for it: > > "locate emacs.pdmp" returns nothing. > > "rpm -ql emacs|grep emacs.pdmp" returns nothing. > > So it appears I don't have it and never did. Very strange. Once Emacs starts, if you type M-x report-emacs-bug RET what do you see in the buffer that Emacs pops? Please post all of its contents. > Are these permissions etc. correct? > > # ls -ld /var/games/emacs > drwxrwx--- 1 games games 50 Aug 16 15:50 /var/games/emacs maybe, but the problem with this directory doesn't seem to be related to your main problems.