emacs won't run, but emacs22 will

[Paul Johnson]

Problem is solved if I do not use the compiz window decorator.  I'm
going to go bother them in their homeland, rather than bother the rest
of you innocent Ubuntuers.

I'm studying the strace output, lots of blah I can't decipher.  Seems
like starting emacs touches every shared library and service that
exists.

PJ

On 7/23/08, Mumia W. <paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> In a terminal, if I type
>>
>> $ emacs
>>
>> the hard drive churns.  The terminal looses focus, but no emacs frame
>> appears.
>> [...]
>>
>> It is only frustrating because I am accustomed to typing "emacs" and
>> not "emacs22".  That, plus none of the configurations and scripts I
>> have will work without being changed to "emacs22".
>>
>>
>
> Until you get it sorted out, you can use a script to invoke emacs22:
>
> -----file:~/bin/emacs----------
> #!/bin/sh
> exec emacs22 "$@"
> -----end-----------------------
>
> Evidently, emacs doesn't like its own name ;-) Do an strace on it:
> "strace emacs". It's probably having some problem finding a
> configuration file that uses the binary's name. Either that or emacs has
> a bug in finding its X resources; by default, a program looks for
> resources that start with the program's name.
>
> HTH
>
>
>
>
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Paul E. Johnson
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