I am using emacs in server mode on a remote machine. The intent is to

have a persistent emacs session that I can reconnect to.

Here are the steps I typically do:

% ssh <machine>

% tmux attach (This step doesn't seem important. I've tried this with and

without tmux).

% emacs --daemon

% emacsclient -n -c

% tmux detach

% exit

At this point the server is toast.

I am using cygwin on Windows 7 for the ssh client and X server. I have

also tried emacs 24.5 with no success. I have tried multiple X tool kits

(athena and motif) with no success.

In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)

 of 2015-10-01 on sdocg001

Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11704000

System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

Configured using:

 `configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid

 --prefix=/home/a0866938/opt/emacs-24.4 --with-jpeg=no --with-gif=no

 --with-tiff=no'

Important settings:

  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:

  show-paren-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  column-number-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:

M-x r e p o <tab> r t <tab> <return>

Recent messages:

Loading delsel...done

Loading paren...done

Loading /home/a0866938/emacs_scripts/tiasm_mode.el (source)...done

Loading /home/a0866938/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-20080305.34/themes/color-theme-example.el (source)...done

Loading /home/a0866938/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-20080305.34/themes/color-theme-example.elc...done

Loading /home/a0866938/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-20080305.34/themes/color-theme-library.el (source)...done

Loading /home/a0866938/.emacs.d/elpa/color-theme-20080305.34/themes/color-theme-library.elc...done

For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:

None found.

Features:

(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml

mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev

gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util

help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode solarized-theme

solarized-definitions cl-macs color-theme wid-edit cl gv cl-loaddefs

cl-lib jka-compr paren delsel cus-start cus-load color-theme-autoloads

info easymenu package epg-config time-date tooltip electric uniquify

ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd

fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode

prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar

mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian

utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean

japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian

cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev

minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files

text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule

custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process

dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:

((conses 16 277417 13086)

 (symbols 48 24532 0)

 (miscs 40 40 109)

 (strings 32 43033 16146)

 (string-bytes 1 860921)

 (vectors 16 14072)

 (vector-slots 8 432696 5323)

 (floats 8 174 265)

 (intervals 56 220 210)

 (buffers 960 12)

 (heap 1024 41052 1153))