GNU bug report logs - #11939
24.1; `save-buffers-kill-emacs' loses minibuffer focus when it calls `list-processes'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1

Done: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11939: 24.1; `save-buffers-kill-emacs' loses minibuffer focus whenit	calls	`list-processes'
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:00:37 -0700

> > That message would be clearer (if this in fact is the 
> > problem) if it said:
> > 
> > "User `' has no home directory".  Or perhaps "User name is empty".
> 
> There's no problem with your user name.  What you see above is
> startup.el shooting itself in the foot, because it actually _sets_ the
> variable that holds the user name to an empty string (for boring
> reasons related to the implementation; see the code around the error
> message for the details, if you are interested).
> 
> I've committed a fix to display the user name correctly, even if that
> variable is set to an empty string.

Good. Thx.
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