From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows keeps complaining: the directory ... is unsafe. Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:34:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83k544sw84.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87skitkvr4.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243287274 10386 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2009 21:34:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 25 23:34:27 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8hoQ-0007v1-RQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 23:34:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8hoP-0006vB-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8hoM-0006v6-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8hoK-0006ul-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60627 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8hoK-0006ui-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:14592) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8hoJ-0003cr-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KK700100YEK3Y00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:34:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.115.215]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KK7002HYYL5EE40@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:34:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87skitkvr4.fsf@telefonica.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111093 Archived-At: > From: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= > Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:11:43 +0200 > > Yesterday I refreshed my build of Emacs CVS on a Windows machine after > some months and it keeps complaining: > > error: The directory d:/home/.emacs.d/server is unsafe > > when calling server-start. I see no references to this problem on News > or Known Problems. That bug was fixed ages ago. The test is made only if Emacs runs on something other than Windows. Are you sure you don't have a stale server.el somewhere? > Is there a cure for this? What I did until now is remove the check on > server.el, but this is hardly acceptable for the common user. What check did you remove, and how did it fail for you? If none of the above helps to solve the problem, please debug it like Juanma suggested, and post the results here. The first thing I'd look at is whether the owner of that directory (as returned by `file-attributes', for example, is the same as what `(user-uid)' returns on that system. TIA