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 14:13:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8mvyqeg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8463a064-a5b3-23c6-1589-a6cc5f899b95@mousecar.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24592"; 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 13:15:23 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 1kBcLr-0006KJ-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:15:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBcLq-0007pi-On for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 07:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBcKB-0005aU-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 07:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBcKB-00017R-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 07:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1199 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kBcK8-0003G1-MF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 07:13:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from ken on Fri, 28 Aug 2020 06:07:19 -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:123820 Archived-At: > From: ken > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 06:07:19 -0400 > > Output in terminal from "emacs -Q" : > > Warning: game dir '/var/games/emacs': Permission denied > 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.