bug#31001: Emacs: "User xyz has no home directory"

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 08:29:58PM -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
> > I found this link to describe the same issue in Nix, and the same fix
> > that worked for me (i.e. install `nscd`):
> > <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/12335>
> 
> Indeed, I think that the GNU Guix info pages already documents
> this. Back in some months ago, it was documented but wasn't felt like a
> requirement, but a change in glibc --- I guess --- now requires the
> nscd from the *foreign/host* distro installed and running.

Correct, this is bug <https://bugs.gnu.org/30298>. The issue is that the
recent glibc changed how it does these name lookups in the recent
update.

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