Fatal error 6, Aborted.

[joedborg]

On KitKat

Fatal error (6)Aborted
/data/data/com.zielm.emacs $

[mcandre]

Emacs for Android has always been crashy and difficult to setup :(

I've finally given up on Emacs, git, and most other command line programs on Android. At some point, ssh'ing from Android to GitHub suddenly stopped working, and no amount of permissions/configuration management could fix it. Once I couldn't git pull/push, there was little point in using Emacs or any other CLI text editor on my phone.

[drnil]

The following procedure works fine on my Nexus 5/Android 4.4.4:

• Disable Hacker's keyboard if you are using it.
• After the Fatal error on startup, connect to startup directory: cd src
• Run startup: ./bootstrap-emacs
• If I have Hacker's keyboard enabled here, I will have a segfault, but if disabled, no segfault.
• After Emacs has initialized, you can reenable Hacker's keyboard, although using an external keyboard (with the External keyboard helper app) works much better. I use Freedom Pro.
• You may need to set the font to some suitable size, as indicated by some other comments. I use 10pt.

After this, my Emacs runs consistently like a dream! (I just wish it could handle UTF-8 :-).

[drnil]

Q: drnll - "connect to startup directory and run startup" - does that go into the app data dir which would only work on a rooted phone?
I couldn't get past "fatal error"...

A: The procedure above does NOT require rooting. You just type "cd src" at the prompt where you were left after the fatal error.

[zenon]

Ah. Cool. So I did not even have to ask. drnil, your description works here too.

Btw., what Did you have to do to get the segfault? I still did nothing more than M-x psychoanalyse-pinhead -- but that worked fine. (With Hacker's Keyboard.)

[SergeyKaAndroid]

It's sensitive to screen size, i had to do the first init in a certain
orientation on Nexus 5
On 7 Nov 2014 14:58, "Falko" [email protected] wrote:

Ah. Cool. So I did not even have to ask. drnil, your description works
here too.

Btw., what Did you have to do to get the segfault? I still did nothing
more than M-x psychoanalyse-pinhead -- but that worked fine. (With Hacker's
Keyboard.)

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[AndyGlew]

More on the sensitivity:

On my phone, emacs -q works with Hacker;s keyboard in landscape mode, but not portrait mode, with font size 20. But I have found nothing that works with in portrait mode, except font-size 4x8.

More precisely:

Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Android 4.4.2

[discipolo]

Try changing in busybox.sh

Emacs TO emacs.bin

Also chmod emacs.bin

This made it start for me (in terminal mode - I kind of expected emacs24)

[jiaqifeng]

Any progressing? Running ./bootstrap-emacs works for me, but it alwasy got fatal error when click the emacs icon.