From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16154: Emacs crashes if $HOME isn't writable Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:17:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83mwk1eunc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21165.24925.926459.238783@zaphod.ms25.net> <87iouqz6ja.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <834n6af5dd.fsf@gnu.org> <7yob4hrj4t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387138694 28981 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2013 20:18:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: reinhard.kotucha@web.de, Stromeko@nexgo.de, 16154@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 15 21:18:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI8n-00052s-Kx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:18:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52368 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI8n-0007zT-6Z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58645) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI8e-0007wi-IR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI8Y-0004D0-3H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38060) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI8X-0004Cw-W8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI8X-0007CE-Op for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:18:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:18:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 16154 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 16154-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B16154.138713865227612 (code B ref 16154); Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 16154) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Dec 2013 20:17:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52079 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI84-0007BI-En for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:17:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35767) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VsI7u-0007Ax-Du for 16154@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 15:17:31 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MXV00A006YI3U00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 16154@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:17:20 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MXV00A2Y70W2I30@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 22:17:20 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <7yob4hrj4t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:82026 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Achim Gratz , reinhard.kotucha@web.de > Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 14:47:46 -0500 > > > Not sure why you guys are saying this works in 24.3, because I only > fixed this in trunk semi-recently: > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/13930 > > Ie, this should be fixed in 24.4. "This" being what? > Of course, "refuses to do anything useful" is very vague, so I have no > way to test whatever the OP was seeing works now. I assumed that "refuses to do anything useful" means you cannot visit a file, edit it, and save it. That works for me, both in 24.3 and the current trunk. FWIW, I did HOME=/whatever emacs -Q and in that session I could visit files, edit them, and save them. Sure, Emacs bitched at me at startup, but that's it.