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#13930: Emacs doesn't cope well if it can't access/create .emacs.d Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:10:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83vc8wk39s.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363104685 21568 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2013 16:11:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:11:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13930@debbugs.gnu.org To: Robert Prije Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 12 17:11:45 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 1UFRnd-00020B-NE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRnH-0002y3-AQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRn8-0002rq-Dp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRn4-00038J-Jm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:11:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44963) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRn4-00038F-HC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRo2-0007Au-HR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:12:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13930 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13930-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13930.136310472127572 (code B ref 13930); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13930) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2013 16:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49072 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRnw-0007Ac-Us for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:12:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:57152) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UFRnr-0007AK-Ps for 13930@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MJK00D002648X00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 13930@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:10:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MJK00BOM29ECS81@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:10:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.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:72374 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:52:08 +0800 > From: Robert Prije > Cc: 13930@debbugs.gnu.org > > It does exactly the same thing with --debug-init (says "creating directory: > permission denied...") and supplies no further information. How about running it under GDB with a breakpoint on report_file_error and on xsignal? If you start GDB from the src directory of the Emacs sources, the .gdbinit file there defines a command xbacktrace which will produce a Lisp-level backtrace in addition to the C-level backtrace produced by the "bt" command of GDB.