bug#53849: 28.0.50; Emacsclient frame immediate close

["Daniel E. Doherty" <ded@ddoherty.net>]

On Mon, Feb 07 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: "Daniel E. Doherty" <ded@ddoherty.net>
>> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 06:59:03 -0600
>>
>>
>> I have not been able to boil this down to a reproducible recipe, but I am
>> invoking emacsclient -c from a script to edit an org table and the frame
>> opens, then closes immediately with an error message: "*ERROR*: Beginning 
>> of
>> buffer".
>
> Does this happen when Emacs is started as "emacs -Q" and then you
> manually start the server in it "M-x server-start RET"?
>
> If the problem doesn't happen in "emacs -Q", you'll need to
> investigate which of your customizations causes this.
>
I will be trying to get this error to trigger with something really close to
emacs -Q and update if it happens.

> Also, how do you invoke emacsclient from that script? can you show the
> full invocation command?
>

Here is a typical invocation, as culled from a log file:

emacsclient -a='' -c 
/home/ded/byr/tmp/registertransacts20220131-1770202-e8rwin.org

> And finally:
>
>> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 10, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
>> version
>> 1.16.0, Xaw scroll bars)
>>  of 2022-02-02 built on saturn
>> Repository revision: a64fcae41b5418c8a7375d93bae59208ca80e67f
>> Repository branch: feature/native-comp
>> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12013000
>> System Description: Ubuntu 21.10
>
> Your build is from an old and probably buggy feature branch.  The
> native-comp feature was merged to mainstream several months ago, so
> please try building the latest emacs-28 branch of the Emacs Git
> repository, or the latest pretest of Emacs 28.1 (available from
> alpha.gnu.org), and see if the problem still exists in the current
> sources.

Ok.  Thanks, didn't realize that.

>
> Thanks.


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