[aclug-L] Re: emacs problem

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am by no means an emacs expert.  I've never even used the program, save a
couple horrific minutes at WSU about 4 years ago.  But...  Is it possible to
run it in debug mode?  (don't know if an editor would have that sort of
option or not... but since it has it's own programming language and
everything else under the sun, I suppose it might have a debug mode)

Have you tried running it as more than one non-root user?  (Just wondering
if it's really a problem with non-root users, or just a specific user
account).  Are any config files all in tact and with proper permissions?

Have you tried strace?

Do you have any Windows partitions?  Perhaps emacs, with its infinate
abilities, has detected the presence of a Microsoft product and is going on
strike?  :-)


On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:55:58PM -0600, Steven Saner wrote:
> Okay (x)emacs gurus, I have a problem for you. I am running a
> Slackware 4.0 system with Linux 2.2.6. This is not a new install. The
> system has been working fine for months. I have not changed anything
> with the kernel or any other major configuration changes. Yesterday I
> used xemacs with no problems at all. Now it will not run as a normal
> user. As root it runs fine, but as a normal user it doesn't do
> anything at all. It starts a process, and the only way I can stop the
> process is to kill it. An interesting thing is that exact same thing
> happens with GNU emacs. It isn't just xemacs. Everything else is
> working fine as best I can tell.  My first thought is that something
> has changed with permissions someplace, but nothing seems out of the
> ordinary and I don't get any error messages.  I have rebooted. I have
> looked for lock files and temporary files. I don't believe that xemacs
> was exited abnormally last time I used it. The machine did not reboot
> abnormally or anything like that.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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