Re: hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages*

[ken]

On 8/28/20 7:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 06:07:19 -0400
>>
>> Output in terminal from "emacs -Q" :
>>
>> Warning: game dir '/var/games/emacs': Permission denied
>> Loading loadup.el (source)...
>> dump mode: nil
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This indicates that Emacs cannot find the emacs.pdmp file.  You should
> fix this problem before you continue investigating any further
> problems, because when Emacs doesn't find its dump file, all kinds of
> weird problems can happen.  So everything you said until now is more
> or less unimportant, until you resolve the problem with the emacs.pdmp
> file.

Thanks, but I know nothing at all about this file, never heard of it. 
Looking for it:

"locate emacs.pdmp" returns nothing.

"rpm -ql emacs|grep emacs.pdmp" returns nothing.

So it appears I don't have it and never did.

Are these permissions etc. correct?

# ls -ld /var/games/emacs
drwxrwx--- 1 games games 50 Aug 16 15:50 /var/games/emacs