From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: 16154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16154: Emacs crashes if $HOME isn't writable
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:40:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iouqz6ja.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21165.24925.926459.238783@zaphod.ms25.net>
Reinhard Kotucha writes:
> Creating directory: permission denied, //.emacs.d/
>
> and refuses to do anything useful. It's on purpose that user 'nobody'
> doesn't have a writable HOME directory.
It looks like nobody doesn't have a non-writable HOME, but no HOME at
all (or "/") on your system.
> It would be better if Emacs can be used even if the HOME directory
> isn't writable.
Well, in my testing Emacs works (giving just a warning about the
non-writable .emacs.d and then moving on), both 24.3 and trunk from a
few days back. Perhaps you have something in site-lisp that assumes a
writable ~/.emacs.d?
Regards,
Achim.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-15 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-15 7:59 bug#16154: Emacs crashes if $HOME isn't writable Reinhard Kotucha
2013-12-15 11:40 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2013-12-15 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-15 19:47 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-15 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-16 3:01 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2013-12-16 21:15 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2013-12-16 7:24 ` Achim Gratz
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