2010/6/14 Juanma Barranquero <lek...@gmail.com>: > 2010/6/13 Václav Haisman <v.hais...@sh.cvut.cz>: > >> 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") > > It'd be good to know whether it also fails with an unpatched Emacs, but > still... > > Most likely, the message means that your .emacs.d/server failed one of > the following two checks: > > (unless (eq t (car attrs)) ; is a dir? > (throw :safe nil)) > (unless (eql uid (user-uid)) ; is the dir ours? > (throw :safe nil)) > > Assuming it is indeed a directory, that means that the id of the owner > of the directory does not match the user running Emacs, i.e, that > > (nth 2 (file-attributes > "c:/Users/wilx/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/server" 'integer)) > > is different from what (user-uid) returns. > > Could you please try both things in your Emacs instance and report > what you find? Also, you could try deleting .emacs.d/server and > recreating it.
There is a very long thread on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsW32 that I have not deleted in case the problem should show up again. The solution mentioned there is to just delete .emacs.d/server as Juanma suggested here. I do not remember the details now, but I think it is related to privilege escalation in the sub process started from the installer. It seems that this is working differently on Windows versions after XP. I am running XP myself so I do not know that very much about it. If anyone wants to step in and fix this problem with the installer (which uses Inno Setup) I would be glad.
