[Bug 1349087] Re: emacs C-x m doesn't work

[Jon Thackray]

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 ends up ans root, root. Then when he tries to run
it without sudo, the initialisation fails very early on unable to read
.emacs.d, his .emacs isn't read, and apparently various search paths
aren't set up. So, work around is for the user to reset the ownership
and group to himself, which presumably he can do since he ran sudo in
the first place. The clairvoyant user will of course run emacs without
sudo first time. I clearly wasn't clairvoyant enough.

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Title:
  emacs C-x m doesn't work

Status in “emacs-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  C-x m is supposed to open a *mail* window in which I can type an email
  and send it. Instead, all I get is a message "Symbol's value as
  variable is void: image-load-path This is a brand new install of 14.04
  and new emacs. Previous installs on earlier releases, eg 10.04, have
  worked "out of the box"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: emacs 45.0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jul 27 12:21:25 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (4 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: emacs-defaults
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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