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Re: [Help] Emacs does not launch as normal user.


From: Leo Butler
Subject: Re: [Help] Emacs does not launch as normal user.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:59:39 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

MysteriousSilver <mysterioussilver@protonmail.com> writes:

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>> That is a standard way to run emacs. What happens when you do
>> emacs -nw
>> in the terminal?
>
> Emacs runs fine 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.
>
> emacs.trace file: https://termbin.com/0u7a .

Begining on line , you have the following:

access("/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/SourceCode/SourceCodePro-Medium.ttf", 
R_OK) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x88} ---
rt_sigaction(SIGSEGV, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[SEGV], 
sa_flags=SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART, sa_restorer=0x7f6f866636a0}, 
{sa_handler=0x56274dd59dc0, sa_mask=~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 
sa_flags=SA_RESTORER|SA_ONSTACK|SA_SIGINFO, sa_restorer=0x7f6f869d40f0}, 8) = 0

To me, that looks like the permissions on that .ttf are wrong, and emacs
is not handling the problem gracefully. So, I would start by looking at
the permissions on that file.

Leo



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