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

[Alex Vorobiev]

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