From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mysterious emacs failure Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:17:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129659775 10368 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2005 18:22:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 20:22:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERw69-0005yl-7c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:22:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERw68-0008JU-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERw5K-00081u-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERw5I-00080q-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:21:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERw5H-00080j-Nq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1ERw5H-0007Wx-J0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ERw3L-00057y-Ok for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:19:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:19:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:19:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30337 Archived-At: Denny Dahl wrote: > Have been hacking at this problem all day and have learned some > interesting things but do not have a solution yet. I was able to > successfully start the "bare impure emacs" executable named temacs. > This runs successfully for a few minutes, then it goes nuts attempting > (unsuccessfully) to create the directory /.emacs.d over and over > again. That suggests that your HOME environment variable is set to "/" or not set at all. -- Kevin Rodgers