Four years on I'm marking this as being invalid as the creation of any
directory within ~/ by using sudo will create the directory with root
permissions. I've seen this many times when installing a new version of
Ubuntu and using mc or vim with sudo.
'sudo -H works around this issue.
** Changed
OK, I think I may understand why this happens. When a new user is
created, the first time emacs is run it creates .emacs.d in the user's
home directory. But, if the first time the user runs emacs is via sudo,
which is more than likely if he is configuring a system, then the
ownership on .emacs.d
This has now happened to me a second time. This time I was setting up a
toshiba laptop. In the mean time I managed to set up a desktop where the
problem did not occur. So that's a 67% failure rate, down from 100%, but
now in a sample of 3.
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Having told it to completely remove and reinstall I can now work around
this. But I am no closer to identifying why it happens.
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So, looking on 10.04, I find C-h v image-load-path says
image-load-path's value is
(/usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/images/ data-directory load-path)
So, I now try on my pristine 14.04 and I find the value to be void.
Looking in /usr/share/emacs/23.1/etc/images/ I find it's a load of .xpm
files, and
Sorry, I can't confirm this bug.
C-x m works for me on a fully updated Kubuntu 14.04.1 using Emacs
24.3.1.
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Subject: [Bug 1349087] Re: emacs C-x m doesn't work
Sorry, I can't confirm this bug.
C-x m works for me on a fully updated Kubuntu 14.04.1 using Emacs
24.3.1.
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