bug#73110: 29.4; emacs.service failed with result 'timeout'

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

Ping! Patrick, could you please respond and confirm that this issue is
because of how you built your Emacs?

> Cc: 73110@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:45:23 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Patrick Nicodemus <gadget142@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 13:22:30 -0400
> > 
> > I want to run Emacs as a service and connect to it with a client. I
> > followed the instructions here:
> > 
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html
> > 
> > and ran the command
> > systemctl --user enable emacs
> > 
> > This apparently creates a file at
> > ~/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/emacs.service
> > 
> > whose contents are:
> > 
> > [Unit]
> > Description=Emacs text editor
> > Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/
> > 
> > [Service]
> > Type=notify
> > ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/emacs --fg-daemon
> > 
> > # Emacs will exit with status 15 after having received SIGTERM, which
> > # is the default "KillSignal" value systemd uses to stop services.
> > SuccessExitStatus=15
> > 
> > # The location of the SSH auth socket varies by distribution, and some
> > # set it from PAM, so don't override by default.
> > # Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/keyring/ssh
> > Restart=on-failure
> > 
> > [Install]
> > WantedBy=default.target
> > 
> > The directions also say:
> > (If your Emacs was installed into a non-standard location, you may need
> > to copy the emacs.service file to a standard directory such as
> > ~/.config/systemd/user/.)
> > 
> > I built this emacs distribution from source and installed it using "sudo
> > make install"; the executable is at /usr/local/bin/emacs, so I don't
> > think it is installed in a non-standard location, and so I did not
> > follow these instructions.
> > 
> > I modified the [Service] command above to include the -Q flag for the
> > purposes of this bug report.
> > 
> > After activating the service, restarting, etc., my journalctl output is
> > as follows:
> > 
> > Sep 07 12:52:45 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
> > Sep 07 12:52:45 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
> > Sep 07 12:52:45 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > Failed to start emacs.service - Emacs text editor.
> > Sep 07 12:52:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
> > Sep 07 12:52:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > Starting emacs.service - Emacs text editor...
> > Sep 07 12:52:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 emacs[183514]:
> > Starting Emacs daemon.
> > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
> > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
> > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > Failed to start emacs.service - Emacs text editor.
> > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
> > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > Starting emacs.service - Emacs text editor...
> > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 emacs[183623]:
> > Starting Emacs daemon.
> > Sep 07 12:55:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
> > Sep 07 12:55:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
> > Sep 07 12:55:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > Failed to start emacs.service - Emacs text editor.
> > Sep 07 12:55:47 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
> > Sep 07 12:55:47 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]:
> > Starting emacs.service - Emacs text editor...
> > Sep 07 12:55:47 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 emacs[183684]:
> > Starting Emacs daemon.
> > 
> > etc., etc., every ninety seconds.
> > 
> > For some reason emacs is not successfully communicating to systemd that
> > it has launched successfully, and so systemd terminates emacs.
> 
> According to this:
> 
> > Configured features:
> > ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
> > IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
> > NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
> > TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB
> 
> your Emacs is built without libsystemd support, which I think is
> required for this to work?  Or maybe I'm missing something.
> 
> 
> 
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