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

[Alexander Vorobiev]

I think the reason is we use active directory with sssd (which is kind of a
standard for enterprise RHEL-based clusters) for authentication. My
understanding is sssd is not supported by Nix at the moment and the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick (to add the libnss_sss.so.2 from the host system to
the search path) suggested here https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/554 isn't
working for emacs.

Alex

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 8:42 PM, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
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