GNU bug report logs - #16154
Emacs crashes if $HOME isn't writable

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de

Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:00:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 13930

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>, reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de, 16154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16154: Emacs crashes if $HOME isn't writable
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 04:01:18 +0100

On 2013-12-15 at 14:47:46 -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:

 > Not sure why you guys are saying this works in 24.3, because I only
 > fixed this in trunk semi-recently:
 > 
 > http://debbugs.gnu.org/13930
 > 
 > Ie, this should be fixed in 24.4.
 > Of course, "refuses to do anything useful" is very vague, so I have no
 > way to test whatever the OP was seeing works now.

Sorry for having been so imprecise.  With "refuses to do anything
useful" I meant that it didn't load the crontab.  There is only the
scratch buffer.  Seems that I encountered the bug you fixed.

I'll try the version in trunk tomorrow.

Thanks,
  Reinhard

-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha                                      Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover                              mailto:reinhard.kotucha <at> web.de
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 162 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.