Re: [update] emacs-28.2

Nam Nguyen <namn@berkeley.edu> writes:

> Kenneth Westerback writes:
>
>> Alas, I can't make the emacs-28.2-gtk3 I downloaded from the link jca@
>> provided work. :-(
>>
>> If I do my normal 'emacs --daemon' from i3 I get two (?) running 'emacs
>> --daemon' processes and 'emacsclient -c' does not seem to do anything.
>> If I just do 'emacs' it flashes the startup screen briefly, goes black
>> and then doesn't do much else. At least I only get 1 emacs process.
>>
>> No idea if there is a newer package available to test, or if there is a
>> library dependency that I managed to break during my
>> g2k22/EuroBSDCon2022 travels.
>
> I cannot reproduce this with both building a package and jca@'s provided
> package. I see only the expected behavior with one `emacs --daemon' and
> multiple emacs clients being able to connect and see the same instance
> using multiple `emacsclient -c'.
>
> Here are some sanity checks to try:
>
> 1. make sure snapshot is updated

Just installed the amd64 snapshot I built overnight from -current and the
unfortunate behaviour of 28.2 on my E595 did not change.
>
> 2. reinstall emacs-28.1. does `emacs --daemon' and `emacsclient -c' work
> there?

Yep. Typing this in mu4e in doom emacs with 28.1, after emacs --daemon,
emacsclient -c.

>
> 3. test in a different window manager like dwm

I'll try whatever the default is (fvwm?) and see what happens.

>
> 4. use -q to ignore .emacs config
> emacs --daemon -q
> emacsclient -c

I will add that to the test queue as the espresso machine heats up.

>
> 5. maybe some alias issue? use full paths
> /usr/local/bin/{emacs,emacsclient} to be sure

No aliases defined.

>
> 6. try `emacs -q' by itself since you said even emacs flashes screen
> briefly and goes black

Will do.

>
> When I try to launch emacs --daemon multiple times it errors out the
> second time as expected.
>
>>
>> This is on an amd64 Lenovo E595.
>>
>> Happy to provide any potentially useful debug info or test stuff.
>>
>> .... Ken


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.... Ken