From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Loris Bennett" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File .emacs not read Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:17:41 +0100 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87lginre22.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512055288 5495 195.159.176.226 (30 Nov 2017 15:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:21:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 16:21:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKQeP-0000z8-1A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:21:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKQeW-0000Fn-4s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:21:28 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de dmd5RuhgY3TEJC6QirL8yAE1ooIiGiwmX5u4dSID40XUqv Cancel-Lock: sha1:jpR+yIvWqGGZfoFI8/7QCLxoKeM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221038 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115149 Archived-At: Hi, Philippe Delavalade writes: > 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 > > I looked for this error on google but answers don't help me. > > Thanks for advices. I don't think this is an Emacs problem. GDM sounds like the Gnome Display Manager and on my Debian system the user 'Debian-gdm' is the owner of my Gnome shell. Bizarrely you seemed to have managed to log in as a similar system user. As this user doesn't have a home directory, let alone a .emacs, you get the error you are seeing. What does 'whoami' or 'id' say? Maybe some other stuff than just slint got upgraded and broke your display manager. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.