portacle: Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault on Ubuntu 18.04.1

>  uname -a
> Linux chriad-VirtualBox 4.15.0-38-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 10 10:59:38 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I run Lubuntu 18.4 in a VirtualBox

./portacle.run 
Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/home/linus/portacle/lin/emacs/libexec/emacs/26.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/': No such file or directory
Warning: Lisp directory '/home/linus/portacle/lin/emacs/share/emacs/26.1/lisp': No such file or directory

(process:5837): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Fatal error 11: Segmentation fault
Backtrace:
/home/chriad/Downloads/portacle//lin/emacs/bin/emacs[0x4fd282]
/home/chriad/Downloads/portacle//lin/emacs/bin/emacs[0x4e42f4]
/home/chriad/Downloads/portacle//lin/emacs/bin/emacs[0x4fbdde]
/home/chriad/Downloads/portacle//lin/emacs/bin/emacs[0x4fc0d3]
/home/chriad/Downloads/portacle//lin/emacs/bin/emacs[0x4fc110]
/home/chriad/Downloads/portacle//lin/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x10330)[0x7f588d8dc330]
./portacle.run: line 7:  5837 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$ROOT/lin/launcher/portacle" "$@"

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It’s a problem with permissions. Both of the above don’t work. But when I start with sudo it works!

When emacs is compiled it compiles in some bogus paths from the host system. These warnings mean nothing and are unrelated to the problem.