From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim 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 17:32:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87txogefz3.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> References: <83vc8wk39s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363106001 3721 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2013 16:33:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:33:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Robert Prije , 13930@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 12 17:33:38 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 1UFS8w-0000iX-6L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:33:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS8Z-0006uk-TW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS8R-0006mD-Eg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS8L-0002Fk-Vf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS8L-0002Fa-SY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS9J-0007jJ-W9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:34:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Sven Joachim Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:34:01 +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=B13930.136310602729692 (code B ref 13930); Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13930) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2013 16:33:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49093 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS94-0007ir-C9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:49793) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UFS8z-0007iV-K4 for 13930@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.10]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx001) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MPsKa-1UAUJl02Ko-004ygJ for <13930@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:32:35 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2013 16:32:34 -0000 Original-Received: from p4FC63D4E.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO turtle.gmx.de) [79.198.61.78] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 12 Mar 2013 17:32:34 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/+sGJEacr+5IIGw2vuNYmdlqyc7ZdJqtQWq7kzk6 K+TdeQg2MmkB5q Original-Received: by turtle.gmx.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B7DA3F4FF; Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:32:32 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <83vc8wk39s.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:10:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 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:72375 Archived-At: On 2013-03-12 17:10 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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. FWIW, this can be reproduced by creating ~/.emacs.d as a file rather than a directory: touch /tmp/.emacs.d HOME=/tmp emacs --no-init-file Than the error is "File exists: /tmp/.emacs.d/". > 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. Done that and found out that locate-user-emacs-file tries to create the directory: ,---- | (gdb) xbacktrace | "make-directory-internal" (0xffffca98) | "make-directory" (0xffffcc1c) | "locate-user-emacs-file" (0xffffcd98) | 0x82d3208 PVEC_COMPILED | "funcall" (0xffffcf10) | "eval" (0xffffd080) | "custom-reevaluate-setting" (0xffffd1fc) | "mapc" (0xffffd308) | "command-line" (0xffffd4bc) | "normal-top-level" (0xffffd5d0) | (gdb) `---- Cheers, Sven