File .emacs not read

File .emacs not read

[Philippe Delavalade]

Hi.

I'm using emacs 25.3.1 under linux ; I just upgraded slint-14.2 to 14.2.1rc2.

Now when starting emacs as user philippe or root or others, it seems that
~/.emacs is not read and I obtain a window *warnings* saying : 

Error (initialization): User GDM has no home directory

I looked for this error on google but answers don't help me.

Thanks for advices.

Regards.

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Ph. Delavalade

Re: File .emacs not read (resolved)

[Philippe Delavalade]

Le jeudi 30 novembre à 09:26, Philippe Delavalade a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using emacs 25.3.1 under linux ; I just upgraded slint-14.2 to 14.2.1rc2.
> 
> Now when starting emacs as user philippe or root or others, it seems that
> ~/.emacs is not read and I obtain a window *warnings* saying : 
> 
> Error (initialization): User GDM has no home directory

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.

Thanks for answers and apologies for my question.

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Ph. Delavalade

Re: File .emacs not read (resolved)

[Emanuel Berg]

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...

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