From: Henning Schultz (schultz@aix520.informatik.uni-leipzig.de)
Date: 08/31/93


From: schultz@aix520.informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Henning Schultz)
Subject: Re: Can't run emacs
Date: 31 Aug 1993 15:35:28 GMT

chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:

> "segmentation violation: core dumped"

>I'm a total novice to Linux, having had it running for about an hour :-)
>I've read the FAQ and the emacs "man" page but can't find any clue to
>this. Everything else that I've tried runs fine.

I had the same problem with my new installation. But then I looked
carefully at the installation messages. And installing emacs it
said something like 'you need to install xshlibs to run emacs'.
Thats what I did. (I installed the whole X- series). I hope thats
it. It worked fine for me.