Maybe we see a problem between incompatible libraries /suse/werner> ldd /usr/bin/emacs-gtk | grep glib libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fb3e303f000) /suse/werner> rpm -qf /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 libglib-2_0-0-2.72.0-2.1.x86_64