From: furnish@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish) Subject: emacs says: Error in init file Date: 1 Jun 1992 06:29:25 GMT
For some reason when I start emacs, it says "Error in init file". I only
noticed this yesterday, and I can't recall whether this is new behavior
or whether it has been doing this for a long time. Anyway, there is no
.emacs file in my ~ directory, or anywhere else, so I don't understand
what is causing this.
If I run emacs from root this problem is gone.
I have checked to make sure that all the .el and .elc files in
/usr/local/emacs/lisp are all world readable. Same for all the
executables, and such. I can't find anything which explains this.
The fact that the problem goes away from the root account seems to
speak of a permissions problem, but I've got almost every file on my
whole system set for world read. Note that aside from this inital
diagnostic, it seems to work okay.
Has anyone seen this problem before, and if so, how did you fix it?
Geoff Furnish