From: Robert Prije <rprije@janestreet.com>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Cc: 13930@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13930: Emacs doesn't cope well if it can't access/create .emacs.d
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 07:33:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE9s2cpjxCk=QyHTO9te4DxKDfPHxQiQbsU9U+VgW=mqnjrihw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txogefz3.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>
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Hi, just checking what the status of this bug is?
Thanks.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2013-03-12 17:10 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:52:08 +0800
> >> From: Robert Prije <rprije@janestreet.com>
> >> 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
>
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-12 1:35 bug#13930: Emacs doesn't cope well if it can't access/create .emacs.d Robert Prije
2013-03-12 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-12 3:52 ` Robert Prije
2013-03-12 5:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-12 9:01 ` Robert Prije
2013-03-12 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-12 16:29 ` Glenn Morris
2013-03-12 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-12 16:32 ` Sven Joachim
2013-05-12 23:33 ` Robert Prije [this message]
2013-05-14 7:30 ` Glenn Morris
2013-05-14 8:46 ` Robert Prije
2013-05-14 16:01 ` Glenn Morris
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