Emacs will not execute, always reports 24.5.1 as version

[Marco Atzeri]

On 01/08/2016 23:16, Brian Kuhn wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the response. Same result with 'emacs -Q' as well, i'm afraid.
>>
>>
>> Then maybe an strace will help.  Please give the following command:
>>
>>   strace -o strace.out /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe -Q
>
> This is interseting.
>
> $ strace -o strace.out /usr/bin/emacs-nox.exe -Q
> Segmentation fault
>>
>> Then look at the output file strace.out to see if it provides a clue as to
>> what's going wrong.  If you don't see anything, compress the file and send
>> it to me as an attachment off list.
>>
>
> I could send that, but it would just be a zero-byte file.   :-)
>
> $ ls -l | grep strace.out
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 MEEEEE Domain Users 0 Aug  1 15:43 strace.out
>>
>> Ken
>>
>

I saw before this. It is an antivirus.
The seg fault is coming from strace as the AV is blocking the
loading of dll's of emacs.

Try disabling it.

Regards
Marco

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