Re: Can't close Emacs+org-mode if /tmp and /home on different partitions

From: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
To: Antti Kaihola <akaihola@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can't close Emacs+org-mode if /tmp and /home on different partitions
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:13:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc8w4lnq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin--Br6NESxz-o=NxaPoZczo9YTLJVYVYwTqe-=@mail.gmail.com> (Antti Kaihola's message of "Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:33:28 +0200")

Antti Kaihola <akaihola@gmail.com> writes:

> I have /tmp on my root partition and a separate partition for /home.
> When trying to close an Emacs session which is using org-mode, I get
> this error:
>
>     move-file-to-trash: Non-regular file: Is a directory, /tmp/babel-XXXXXXX
>
> (where XXXXXXX are random characters).
>
> I tracked down the problem to org-babel-remove-temporary-directory
> which ob.el adds to kill-emacs-hook. It tries to remove the temporary
> directory using delete-directory, which in turn tries to move the
> directory (by renaming) into trash, which is in my home directory.

I've just added some exception handling which should allows Emacs to
close down (without removing the temporary directory) in this situation.

Thanks for the clear report.

Dan

> Here's the debugger traceback:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Non-regular file" "Is a
> directory" "/tmp/babel-4893rR1")
>   rename-file("/tmp/babel-4893rR1"
> "/home/akaihola/.local/share/Trash/files/babel-4893rR1_4893HqQ")
>   move-file-to-trash("/tmp/babel-4893rR1")
>   delete-directory("/tmp/babel-4893rR1")
>   (progn (mapc (lambda ... ...) (directory-files
> org-babel-temporary-directory ...
> "^\\([^.]\\|\\.\\([^.]\\|\\..\\)\\).*")) (delete-directory
> org-babel-temporary-directory))
>   (if (and (boundp ...) (file-exists-p org-babel-temporary-directory))
> (progn (mapc ... ...) (delete-directory
> org-babel-temporary-directory)))
>   (when (and (boundp ...) (file-exists-p
> org-babel-temporary-directory)) (mapc (lambda ... ...)
> (directory-files org-babel-temporary-directory ...
> "^\\([^.]\\|\\.\\([^.]\\|\\..\\)\\).*")) (delete-directory
> org-babel-temporary-directory))
>   org-babel-remove-temporary-directory()
>   eval((org-babel-remove-temporary-directory))
>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>
> I added this to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
>
>    (custom-set-variables '(temporary-file-directory "/home/akaihola/tmp/"))
>
> and closing Emacs works correctly again. However, since my init.el is
> part of emacs-starter-kit which I update frequently, I'd prefer not to
> modify that file. Unfortunately the customization hook
> emacs-starter-kit provides (~/.emacs.d/custom.el) is loaded too late
> to affect the temporary directory.
>
> I'm running emacs-snapshot 1:20090909-1 in Ubuntu 10.10. Looks like
> this is really an Emacs bug and is already fixed:
> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_thread/thread/0446b8684a8ef504
>
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