Comment # 11 on bug 1198616 from Dr. Werner Fink

Please change in the .emacs.d/ into your hom directory

  cd ~/.emacs.d/

then remove the directory eln-cache/

  rm -rf eln-cache/

and afterwards retry to start emacs-nox or emacs-gtk or emacs-x11 without
DISPLAY set:

  unset DISPLAY
  emacs-nox