Emacs working again ME in fedora 14

Colin Paul Adams colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 5 10:53:25 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang S Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com> writes:

    Wolfgang> 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.

    Wolfgang>     # emacs **
    Wolfgang> GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init:
    Wolfgang> assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error ==
    Wolfgang> NULL) Fatal error (6)Aborted (core dumped)

    Wolfgang> Hmm. A plain "emacs<cr>" run under an su-to-root bash
    Wolfgang> shell seems to fail for me too.  Running "emacs -nw" works
    Wolfgang> fine.  At first glance it looks like something in the X11
    Wolfgang> initialization is screwing up.

It's working completely fine for me this morning.

I've commented out the:

unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

in my .bash_profile (just in case it happens again).
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