[Nix-dev] "user ... has no home directory" error in emacs

[James Cook]

On 30 June 2015 at 07:46, Alex Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed nix-1.9 on RHEL 6.5 (using gcc-5.1 I compiled myself)
> and I am trying to use it in single-user mode. I installed a few packages
> and they all seem to work (after I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH). I also installed
> emacs which starts but shows this error message "user my_user_id has no
> home directory" and doesn't load my initialization files. (I don't know
> whether it is important but the system uses ldap/pam so there is no record
> for me in /etc/passwd.) Regular non-nix emacs 24.5 works fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex

In case this is still troubling you, I found a thread where a Guix
user (Guix is based on nix) was having a similar problem, and one
question that came up was whether nscd was running on the system.

The message: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2015-02/msg00088.html

James