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* bug#33847: 27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket
@ 2018-12-23  9:48 Ulrich Mueller
  2018-12-23 16:20 ` Ulrich Mueller
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 55+ messages in thread
From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2018-12-23  9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 33847

The master branch was recently updated to place the server socket in
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, with a fallback to the previous TMPDIR location.
This will make emacsclient fail when the server has been started from
an environment where XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.

For example, if emacs --daemon is started on a Gentoo system via
OpenRC's start-stop-daemon, then emacs will create the socket in
${TMPDIR}/emacs${UID}/, but emacsclient (in the user's X session)
will search for it in ${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/emacs/:

$ emacsclient -c
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
emacsclient: To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:

        --socket-name
        --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
        --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)

(The reason is of course that start-stop-daemon does not set the XDG_*
variables. However, I don't see how it could do that in any reasonable
way. Presumably it would have to happen via PAM and ConsoleKit, but the
latter doesn't have a display at that point.)

Suggested solutions:
- Create the socket in a dir that is more readily available, for example 
  somewhere under ${HOME}/emacs.d/, or
- Have emacsclient fall back to TMPDIR as well when no socket is found
  under XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.





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2018-12-23  9:48 bug#33847: 27.0.50; emacsclient does not find server socket Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-23 16:20 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-25 21:02 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-25 23:29   ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-26  0:24     ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-26  2:27       ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-26  6:59         ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-26 15:14           ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-26 18:32             ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-28  6:37               ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-30  6:47                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-27  3:38       ` Richard Stallman
2018-12-27 16:42         ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-27 17:13           ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-28  6:19             ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-28  6:35               ` Paul Eggert
2018-12-28  6:51                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2018-12-30  6:44                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-20 17:59                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-02-10  8:37                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-02-10  9:48                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-19 11:05                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-21 21:28                             ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-22  7:24                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-22  7:33                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-08-22  7:45                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-22  8:00                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 17:51                                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-22  7:59                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 17:55                                 ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-22 18:30                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-22 21:20                                     ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-23  5:41                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-22 13:08                                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-22 16:45                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-22 17:05                                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-22 17:30                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-23 11:31                                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 11:38                                                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-23 23:58                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-24  6:23                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24  7:48                                                         ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-24  8:25                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 23:31                                                             ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-25  6:32                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-25 16:22                                                                 ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]                                                                 ` <a0688fd6-9e73-73d8-6138-3280981abcb5@cs.ucla.edu>
2021-07-25 16:34                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04  6:45                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-25  7:27                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-24 10:11                                                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-24 19:37                                                         ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-23 11:58                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-22 18:30                                             ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-04-27  1:41 ` Teika Kazura
2019-04-27  7:56   ` Eli Zaretskii

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