diff --git a/IPython/genutils.py b/IPython/genutils.py
index e9b0448..8d68c3c 100644
--- a/IPython/genutils.py
+++ b/IPython/genutils.py
@@ -942,11 +942,7 @@ def get_home_dir():
         if not isdir(homedir):
             # in case a user stuck some string which does NOT resolve to a
             # valid path, it's as good as if we hadn't foud it
-
-            #raise KeyError  # dbg
-            # dbg - figuring out what's going on here
-            pp = os.listdir(homedir+'/..')
-            raise ValueError('Wrong dir: %s\n%s' % (homedir,pp))  # dbg
+            raise KeyError
         return homedir
     except KeyError:
         if os.name == 'posix':