Hi, just checking what the status of this bug is? Thanks. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > 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 >