[aclug-L] Re: emacs problem

[Larry Bottorff <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I know in general emacs relies on the .emacs file:

-rw-r--r--   1 penguins1  penguins1       2747 Aug 26 00:55 .emacs

Each user (such as penguins1) has their own .emacs, so see if your .emacs on
your regular user side is healthy.


On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, you 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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