The font work around allows it to start for me too. It is really small and one has to reset font to use.
It appears that many of the fonts that come up in the selection box don't work . So that might be a good clue on what the problem is regarding emacs and lxde/lubuntu, something to do with fonts not being available in lxde/lubuntu?? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684613 Title: emacs crashes with "Arithmetic error" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs