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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=86v9e42anu.fsf@x201.butler.org \
--to=leo.butler@umanitoba.ca \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=mysterioussilver@protonmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).