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From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
To: MysteriousSilver via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: MysteriousSilver <mysterioussilver@protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Help] Emacs does not launch as normal user.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:47:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v9e42anu.fsf@x201.butler.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JK1JsM_k-PAPr2ffdAWPRTXs1VpQQpgOBz8dAzDo8fBRGU-aQ9ZjjKg7fspKvB6eF6tztGVnsOJ9B6XUuvtdFHyKKs3PzAfutvORNhsjBoQ=@protonmail.com> (MysteriousSilver via Users list for the's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:24:22 +0000")

MysteriousSilver via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs displays an error message and closes when I launch it from
> terminal. I'm running Arch GNU/Linux and have installed emacs from the
> official pacman repository. Is this a normal thing and if no, how do I
> fix it? ('sudo emacs' runs fine)
>
> Error Message: https://termbin.com/7pwf
>
> Thanks in advance.

That is a standard way to run emacs. What happens when you do

emacs -nw

in the terminal?

Also, if you start emacs like so:

strace emacs 2> emacs.trace

that will give a better idea of what is going wrong.

Leo



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-17 13:24 [Help] Emacs does not launch as normal user MysteriousSilver via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-17 16:47 ` Leo Butler [this message]
2020-11-18  4:15   ` MysteriousSilver
2020-11-18 16:59     ` Leo Butler
2020-11-19  5:37       ` MysteriousSilver
2020-11-19 19:28         ` Leo Butler
2020-11-18 17:00     ` Leo Butler

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