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 (resolved) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:47:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20171202104720.GA1409@magellan.machin.org> References: <20171130082646.GA1785@magellan.machin.org> 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 1512211669 5799 195.159.176.226 (2 Dec 2017 10:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 10:47:49 +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 11:47:46 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 1eL5Kj-0001Hd-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:47:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL5Kr-0005qM-27 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:47:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL5KP-0005oo-CU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eL5KM-0006FI-BW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.smtpout.orange.fr ([80.12.242.124]:45733 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 1eL5KM-0006Ec-0v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 05:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([81.249.167.43]) by mwinf5d03 with ME id gynL1w00E0wWsPl03ynLok; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:47:20 +0100 X-ME-Helo: localhost X-ME-Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:47:20 +0100 X-ME-IP: 81.249.167.43 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171130082646.GA1785@magellan.machin.org> 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:115168 Archived-At: Le jeudi 30 novembre à 09:26, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > 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 A command grep -i "gdm" /etc/* showed me a bash script with the line export LOGNAME="GDM" I commented it and now everything looks clean. Thanks for answers and apologies for my question. -- Ph. Delavalade