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Re: File .emacs not read
From: |
Loris Bennett |
Subject: |
Re: File .emacs not read |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:17:41 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Philippe Delavalade <philippe.delavalade@orange.fr> writes:
> 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
>
> I looked for this error on google but answers don't help me.
>
> Thanks for advices.
I don't think this is an Emacs problem. GDM sounds like the Gnome
Display Manager and on my Debian system the user 'Debian-gdm' is the
owner of my Gnome shell. Bizarrely you seemed to have managed to log in
as a similar system user. As this user doesn't have a home directory,
let alone a .emacs, you get the error you are seeing.
What does 'whoami' or 'id' say? Maybe some other stuff than just slint
got upgraded and broke your display manager.
Cheers,
Loris
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