Emacs - Error when calling (server-start)

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I am currently using GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 in Windows Vista SP1. In my .emacs file I make a call to (server-start) and that is causing an error with the message The directory ~/.emacs.d/server is unsafe. Has anyone seen this and know a fix or workaround? ... other than leaving server turned off ;)

Here is the stack trace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "The directory ~/.emacs.d/server is unsafe")
  signal(error ("The directory ~/.emacs.d/server is unsafe"))
  error("The directory %s is unsafe" "~/.emacs.d/server")
  server-ensure-safe-dir("~\\.emacs.d\\server\\")
  server-start(nil)
  call-interactively(server-start t nil)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
server-mode dot-emacs elisp emacs windows
11 Answers

This is a known Emacs bug on Windows. A workaround is to comment out this line in server-ensure-safe-dir in server.el the you'll want to byte recompile after the change:

;; FIXME: Busted on Windows. 
;; (eql (nth 2 attrs) (user-uid))
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