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Re: File .emacs not read (resolved)


From: Philippe Delavalade
Subject: Re: File .emacs not read (resolved)
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 11:47:20 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27)

Le jeudi 30 novembre à 09:26, Philippe Delavalade a écrit :
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using emacs 25.3.1 under linux ; I just upgraded slint-14.2 to 14.2.1rc2.
> 
> Now when starting emacs as user philippe or root or others, it seems that
> ~/.emacs is not read and I obtain a window *warnings* saying : 
> 
> Error (initialization): User GDM has no home directory

A command
grep -i "gdm" /etc/*
showed me  a bash script with the line
export LOGNAME="GDM"
I commented it and now everything looks clean.

Thanks for answers and apologies for my question.

-- 
Ph. Delavalade



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