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#16154
Emacs crashes if $HOME isn't writable
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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.
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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Reinhard Kotucha writes:
> Creating directory: permission denied, //.emacs.d/
>
> and refuses to do anything useful. It's on purpose that user 'nobody'
> doesn't have a writable HOME directory.
It looks like nobody doesn't have a non-writable HOME, but no HOME at
all (or "/") on your system.
> It would be better if Emacs can be used even if the HOME directory
> isn't writable.
Well, in my testing Emacs works (giving just a warning about the
non-writable .emacs.d and then moving on), both 24.3 and trunk from a
few days back. Perhaps you have something in site-lisp that assumes a
writable ~/.emacs.d?
Regards,
Achim.
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