Solved Emacs init.el problem

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balanga

I have a ~/.emacs.d/init.el which includes:-

Code: 
(load-file "blabla.el")

blabla.el is in ~/.emacs.d/

When I start emacs I get this error:-

File is missing: Cannot open load file, No such file or directory, /root/blabla.el
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I can use a full path to load the file, but do I need to? I thought emacs would look in emacs home directory (~/.emacs.d/) to find files. What have I missed?

The above is a copy of a question asked on emacs stackexchange. After following the advice given, I still get the same error msg. Just wondering if this is a quirk in the FreeBSD build... I'm using emacs v29.1.

~/.emacs.d/init.el:-
Code: 
load-theme ' leuven t)                                                                                                                                                                             
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp")                                                                                                                                                         
(split-window-horizontally)                                                                                                                                                                         
(load-file "blabla.el")

~/.emacs.d/lisp/blabla.el:-
Code: 
(message "hello")

In emacs, C-h v load-path shows ~/.emacs.d/lisp as the first directory.

Code: 
root@X1:~ # ls -al ~/.emacs.d/lisp/blabla.el
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  18 Sep  9 08:43 /root/.emacs.d/lisp/blabla.el

This very basic error is driving me nuts.

Could anyone replicate this error, or suggest what I'm doing wrong?
 
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