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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages*
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:08:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d43883c3-0362-09b9-5b6e-85e678b882e4@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o8mvyqeg.fsf@gnu.org>

On 8/28/20 7:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>> 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.

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.

Are these permissions etc. correct?

# ls -ld /var/games/emacs
drwxrwx--- 1 games games 50 Aug 16 15:50 /var/games/emacs





  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-28 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-26 20:08 finding the hork point in ~/.emacs ken
2020-08-26 20:10 ` Yuan Fu
2020-08-26 20:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-26 22:38   ` ken
2020-08-26 23:27     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-26 23:39       ` ken
2020-08-27  0:23         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  4:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 17:24       ` ken
2020-08-27 17:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 22:40           ` ken
2020-08-28  6:41             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 11:56               ` ken
2020-08-27 17:17     ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp ken
2020-08-27 17:34       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-08-28 10:07         ` hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* ken
2020-08-28 11:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 12:08             ` ken [this message]
2020-08-28 12:39               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 13:02                 ` ken
2020-08-28 13:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                     ` <d4982eda-fd8a-c2fd-3342-b446d83218fc@mousecar.com>
2020-08-29 12:47                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 16:02                         ` hork point in ~/.emacs: needing emacs.pdmp & other ken
2020-08-29 18:13                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 18:59                             ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 19:21                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 21:49                             ` Togan Muftuoglu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-31 11:30                             ` ken
2020-08-28 13:13                 ` hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* ken
2020-08-28 13:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 17:41       ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp Robert Pluim
2020-08-27 17:43         ` Noam Postavsky
2020-08-28 10:50         ` ken
2020-08-28 11:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 12:26             ` ken
2020-08-28 12:41               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 12:14                 ` ken
2020-08-28 12:46             ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs -> emacs.pdmp ken
2020-08-26 20:52 ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-26 23:37   ` ken
2020-08-27  0:46     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-27  2:18       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  0:53 ` Carson Chittom
2020-08-27  1:42   ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27  2:27     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  2:58       ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27  4:23         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  4:57           ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27  5:06             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1413.1598489645.2469.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2020-08-27  1:53     ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-08-27  2:19   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  2:59     ` Drew Adams

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