Could you start Geany with geany -v from the terminal and see if there is anything useful in the output?
By default, Geany's configuration directory is in ~/.config/geany, does that directory exist and can your user write to ~/.config?
If it exist, could you post the output of ls -la ~/.config/geany?

Based on the output above, it might be the symlink creation which fails: on startup, Geany creates a Unix domain socket in /tmp and then create a symlink to that file in the config directory.
Is there a file like geany_socket.<something> in your /tmp and if so, what are its permissions and ownership?

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