Emacs doesn't load gui.

Posted by D Connors on Super User See other posts from Super User or by D Connors
Published on 2010-06-17T16:56:16Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 17:03 UTC
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Hi, whenever I run emacs or emacs23 on terminal I just get the following output:

** (emacs:2620): CRITICAL **: menu_proxy_module_load: assertion `dbusproxy != NULL' failed

And the gui doesn't load, and emacs' window never opens. The emacs process doesn't actually crash (the terminal stays busy, and I can see the emacs23 process running with ps -e).

I've tried running it with the -D --debug-init arguments, but the same thing happens and the output is exactly the same. However, if I run emacs -nw it successfully runs emacs in terminal mode as if nothing were wrong.

Strangely, this problem only started happening the second time I ran emacs today. The first time it worked perfectly fine. Since then, I've tried rebooting and I've tried purging the emacs installation, to no success.

I haven't installed any new packages today, but I might have upgraded some, could that be the reason? Is there a way to find out which packages were installed/upgraded today?

Thanks

I'm running Ubuntu Lucid

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