From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File .emacs not read (resolved) Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:11:30 +0100 Message-ID: <86fu8shayl.fsf@zoho.com> References: <20171130082646.GA1785@magellan.machin.org> <20171202104720.GA1409@magellan.machin.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512263540 25958 195.159.176.226 (3 Dec 2017 01:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 01:12:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 03 02:12:16 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 1eLIpH-00069l-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:12:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLIpM-0002UZ-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:12:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLIop-0002UG-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLIom-00085m-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:11:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59378 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLIom-00085W-2h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:11:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eLIob-000487-RK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:11:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:T1OTcfRUxnlcI+Bxrqi3PSZkQOQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:115176 Archived-At: Philippe Delavalade wrote: > 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. Great! :) Do this as well $ sudo grep -r 'export LOGNAME' / so to make sure nothing else messes with it. It takes some time to complete. And just as with `apropos-value', some of the hits can be related to the search itself... > Thanks for answers and apologies for > my question. Not at all :) Most questions/discussions here are about Emacs itself but getting Emacs to work isn't OT. No post that has the word "Emacs" in it is, basically... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573