Getting emacs --daemon working in Chromebook Crostini VM

Getting emacs --daemon working in Chromebook Crostini VM

[Alex Bennée]

Hi,

I'm not sure what has changed but I've got a very weird problem with
trying to run Emacs on my Chromebook. The Crostini container is a
standard Debian Buster install and I can run emacs normally from the
command line and get a GUI. However when try and start the daemon with:

  emacsclient -a '' -c -n

I can see it starting up but it never completes and opens a frame. It's
not hung because I can trigger a new frame to appear via Edit with Emacs
sending a new frame request from the browser. However I can't use any
minibuffer operations and any attempts to do so hangs as the prompt is
echoed on the terminal I launched the daemon from.

Any idea what could be going on or how best to debug this?

-- 
Alex Bennée

Re: Getting emacs --daemon working in Chromebook Crostini VM

[Alex Bennée]

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what has changed but I've got a very weird problem with
> trying to run Emacs on my Chromebook. The Crostini container is a
> standard Debian Buster install and I can run emacs normally from the
> command line and get a GUI. However when try and start the daemon with:
>
>   emacsclient -a '' -c -n
>
> I can see it starting up but it never completes and opens a frame. It's
> not hung because I can trigger a new frame to appear via Edit with Emacs
> sending a new frame request from the browser. However I can't use any
> minibuffer operations and any attempts to do so hangs as the prompt is
> echoed on the terminal I launched the daemon from.
>
> Any idea what could be going on or how best to debug this?

Bisecting my config it seems to be something to do with doom-modeline
which once disabled allows everything to work as before. Have no idea
why though.

-- 
Alex Bennée