[h-e-w] Re: 23.1.50; "The directory .emacs.d/server is unsafe" problem

[Václav Haisman]

Václav Haisman wrote, On 13.6.2010 12:01:
> 
> I am getting the following error right after installation of patched
> Emacs, when it tries to start to let me configure it. The directory
> .emacs.d/server did not exist before I intalled Emacs.
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "The directory
> `c:/Users/wilx/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/server' is unsafe")
>   signal(error ("The directory
> `c:/Users/wilx/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/server' is unsafe"))
>   error("The directory `%s' is unsafe"
> "c:/Users/wilx/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/server")
>   server-ensure-safe-dir("c:/Users/wilx/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/server/")
>   server-start(nil)
>   server-mode(1)
>   byte-code("[...removed bytecode...]" [server-file server-auth-dir
> server-name require server getenv "EMACSCLIENT_STARTING_SERVER" "yes"
> "EMACS_SERVER_FILE" file-name-directory file-name-nondirectory server-mode 1] 
> 3)
>   load("auto-server" nil t)
>   command-line-1(("-l" "auto-server"))
>   command-line()
>   normal-top-level()
I took a look at the permissions and the .emacs.d and the server directoroes
have been owned by Administrators group rather than by my user. When I fixed
that Emacs has stopped complaining.

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VH

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