From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vincent Liard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Crash on empty HOME var in Windows registry Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:51:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4677C326.1050106@free.fr> References: <46764C61.1050804@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1182253872 23777 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 11:51:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 13:51:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0cEj-0003KB-Cv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:51:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cEi-0000ic-QI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cEh-0000hl-AH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cEf-0000cg-Bs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0cEf-0000cD-3q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.27]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0cEd-0001HA-WB; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (mol92-2-81-56-75-108.fbx.proxad.net [81.56.75.108]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611651AB2BC; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:50:56 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15955 Archived-At: > Would you like to try the latest Emacs release, 22.1, > and see if it has the same problem? So, I have installed 22.1 and tried. With no HOME env var and an empty (but defined) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\emacs\HOME registry key, emacs complains "A fatal error has occurred!" and gives the opportunity either to abort, which stops without error, or to continue inside GDB, which causes a Windows "crash" notification since I can't prepare it with gdb -p as advised (because I don't have GDB installed on Windows). The error report is: AppName: emacs.exe AppVer: 22.1.0.0 ModName: ntdll.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 00001230 Wouldn't it be desirable to just tell the user that they have misconfigured their HOME or to proceed without complaining ?