Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> skribis: > I can confirm that the error disappears when nscd is running. Emacs no > longer tells me > > Error (initialization): User rwurmus has no home directory > > when starting it as long as nscd is running. > > I would like to note that the version of Emacs that is available through > Fedora repositories does not need nscd to run (this is on the same > machine). The error only appears when nscd is not running and the Emacs > installed via Guix is used.
Earlier, you wrote: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- It is mentioned in /etc/nsswitch.conf: ~~~~~~~ ... passwd: files sss shadow: files sss group: files sss services: files sss netgroup: files sss ... ~~~~~~~ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (See <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19780#74>.) What happens is that libnss_sss.so was being loaded in your Emacs process. However, the Emacs process was linked against Guix’s libc, whereas libnss_sss.so was linked against Fedora’s libc. Hence the crash. When nscd is running, NSS extensions are loaded in the nscd process so there is no such problem. > Thanks for the help! Now that I’m sure that this is not a general > problem I can prepare to replace Fedora with GuixSD on my office > workstation. \o/ Thanks! Ludo’.
