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Problems with HOME on w32


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Problems with HOME on w32
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:47:01 +0200
User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308)

There is a message about a problem with HOME on w32 on http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32 :

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The symptom is “Error (initialization): User has no home directory” and no .emacs file loaded.

A quick kook at HOME env. var shows:

   (getenv "HOME") -> "Š,ûw"

I traced Emacs22 file access with NTFILMON (http://www.sysinternals.com). I found that Emacs try to query information on |C:\.emacs| (after one on |C:\|) and fails with buffer overflow (I guess the structure passed to store query result is too small). Seems something goes bad inside Emacs so that HOME is corrupted.

It should be noted that without a |C:\.emacs| file, everything works and then .emacs file is expected in %APPDATA% directory for 22.0.50.1 and HOME env. var point to this place too.
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I tested and got the same result with GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2006-05-13.






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