[aclug-L] Re: emacs problem

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:12:43AM -0600, Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 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)

If there is a debug mode I don't know about it.

> 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?

I have run it as two different non-root users. There is a local config
file (.emacs) that I have checked and even temporarily removed, with
no different results.

> Have you tried strace?

No. I'm not really familiar with strace. I might try that.

> 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?  :-)

Hehe... no Windows partitions on this box.

> 
> 
> 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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Steven Saner                            SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
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