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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.
- Problems with HOME on w32,
Lennart Borgman <=
Re: Problems with HOME on w32, Jason Rumney, 2006/05/19