From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with just-installed Emacs on Mac OS X Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:48:22 -0600 Organization: ipHouse Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109303235 9013 80.91.229.2 (25 Feb 2005 03:47:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 04:47:14 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4WRU-0006wI-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:47:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4WjA-0002E6-8n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:05:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator3-LAX.newsfeeds.com!news-in.usenet.com!news.moat.net!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!tan.iphouse.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3AGG7e5Tw2hqEu8tD13dBAC0jrs= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2005 21:48:22 CST Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@iphouse.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128795 X-Originally-To: Kubovy Michael 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24334 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24334 Kubovy Michael writes: > When I launch Emacs, it complains and asks me to start up with > > emacs --debug-init > > When I do, I get: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening directory" "no > such file or directory" > Any advice would be appreciated. Please cc the reply to me, since I > receive the digest, and would be happy to make progress soon. Do you have a .emacs configuration file in your home directory? It looks like it is complaining that it can't find one. Did you compile this yourself, or download a precompiled binary? If you compiled it yourself, what did you use for ./configure?