emacs not working on GNOME in fedora 14
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 20:42:46 UTC 2010
Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:07:02 +0100
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
>> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1409936
>>
>> Cannot confirm that. Running Emacs as root after logging into GNOME as an
>> ordinary user also works for me.
>
> Works for me as well, but if I start emacs from a root xterm, I do
> see lots of errors spewed on stderr, however none of them seem to
> prevent emacs from working.
# emacs
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Fatal error (6)Aborted (core dumped)
Hmm. A plain "emacs<cr>" run under an su-to-root bash shell seems to
fail for me too. Running "emacs -nw" works fine. At first glance it
looks like something in the X11 initialization is screwing up.
-wolfgang
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