From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philippe Delavalade Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File .emacs not read Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:00:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20171202100031.GA10128@magellan.machin.org> References: <87lginre22.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20171201110706.GA6022@magellan.machin.org> <86bmjii70q.fsf@zoho.com> 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 1512208865 30017 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2017 10:01:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 10:01:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 02 11:01:00 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 1eL4bT-0007XV-Hs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:00:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL4ba-0007br-RT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:01:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL4b7-0007bm-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL4b4-0007u2-Mx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:00:37 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.smtpout.orange.fr ([80.12.242.124]:37440 helo=smtp.smtpout.orange.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL4b4-0007pp-DY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([81.249.167.43]) by mwinf5d03 with ME id gy0X1w00D0wWsPl03y0YXh; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:00:32 +0100 X-ME-Helo: localhost X-ME-Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:00:32 +0100 X-ME-IP: 81.249.167.43 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86bmjii70q.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.12.242.124 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:115166 Archived-At: Le vendredi 01 décembre à 20:26, Emanuel Berg a écrit : > Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > > /home/philippe/tmp/~GDM/ > > Do > > M-x apropos-value RET GDM RET I obtain : command-history ((apropos-value (quote ("GDM")) nil) (execute-extended-command nil "apropos-value" "apropos-val")) init-file-user "GDM" and somewhere below "LOGNAME=GDM" "LESS=-M" "G_FILENAME_E > and see if you can learn from where this GDM > stuff originates. > > Eval these variables (C-x C-e) > > user-emacs-directory "~/.emacs.d/" > user-full-name "" > user-init-file "~GDM/.emacs" (wrong) > user-login-name "GDM" (wrong) > user-real-login-name "philippe" (right) > > as well as the functions > > (user-full-name) "" > (user-login-name) "GDM" > (user-original-login-name) "GDM" > (user-real-login-name) "philippe" > (user-real-uid) 1000 (#o1750, #x3e8) > (user-uid) 1000 (#o1750, #x3e8) > > Again post whoami(1) philippe > and id(1) uid=1000(philippe) gid=1000(philippe) groupes=1000(philippe),5(tty),7(lp), 11(floppy),17(audio),18(video),19(cdrom),93(scanner) I obtained these with M-! (was it the right way ?) > > Do -Q invocation as well as ordinary from your > user account and compare. First, no error with '-w' option. Here is theonly difference user-init-file which is nil (quite normal I tink) So I don't understand what user GDm is. By default slackware (and slint) defined a group and a user 'gdm' but I deleted them yesterday. Package gdm is not installed (yesterday I said that it was but it is not). Regards. -- Ph. Delavalade