GNU bug report logs - #36598
26.1; (error "‘/tmp/emacs1000’ is not a safe directory because it is a symlink")

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: mah <at> everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 36598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: mah <at> everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)
Cc: 36598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36598: 26.1; (error "‘/tmp/emacs1000’ is not a safe
 directory because it is a symlink")
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 06:38:41 +0200

mah <at> everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:

> $ ls -l /tmp/emacs1000
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 mah mah 20 Jul 11 09:53 /tmp/emacs1000 -> /run/user/1000/emacs
>
> Whoever set up the symlink for /tmp/emacs1000 should also change the
> value of server-socket-dir.

I'm unable to reproduce this error -- do you have a recipe starting from
"emacs -Q"?

What is it that triggers the "is not a safe directory because it is a
symlink" error?  Do you have a backtrace?

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