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GNU Emacs in a snap
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User <name> has no home directory #68

Closed gigem closed 1 year ago

gigem commented 1 year ago

I'm using the emacs 29 snap on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. At startup, emacs reports the following.

■ Error (initialization): User dengel has no home directory

I'm pretty sure the problem stems from our use of sssd (configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf) with Microsoft Active Directory for login authentication and user info. Adding an entry to /etc/passwd for the user causes the emacs error to go away. Doing so causes other system issues so is not an acceptable solution.

I suspect the snap needs to be built with some extra NSS/SSS packages to work with our configuration. libnss-sss and libsss-nss-idmap0 look like good candidates.

alexmurray commented 1 year ago

I have promoted the emacs 29.1 snap to stable with the fix from #69 - closing this as fixed. Thanks again @gigem.