Subject: bug#13430: 24.2.92; Fatal error at startup

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:38:40 -0500

One last idea:

Maybe EMACSLOADPATH is somehow set to the empty string?

Try:
echo ${EMACSLOADPATH+set}
unset EMACSLOADPATH
emacs -Q