Re: emacs 21.3.1 not loading .emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

pranavtiwari@gmail.com wrote:
> On my Unix machine, emacs is not loading .emacs.
>
> If I start emacs as:
>
>  % emacs -u $USER
>
> emacs starts up correctly with my .emacs loaded. However, if I start it
> without -u option, it ignores my .emacs.
>
> Can someone suggest what the problem could be?

What do these commands tell you:
C-h v user-login-name
C-h v user-real-login-name
C-h v user-init-file
C-h v init-file-user

Does the problem persist when you start emacs as:
emacs --debug-init

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Kevin Rodgers