From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kj Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sf Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Organization: none Message-ID: References: <87pr9t52lm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253077814 2072 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2009 05:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:10:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 07:10:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MnmmL-0008IH-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:10:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47376 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnmmK-0005Og-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:10:04 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1253055658 25173 166.84.1.3 (15 Sep 2009 23:00:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:00:58 +0000 (UTC) X-No-Confirm: yes User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173051 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:43:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68195 Archived-At: In <87pr9t52lm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> David Kastrup writes: >kj writes: >> I posted this query some months ago, but got no replies. >Try a better fitting subject line. The bad subject line was a mistake, and it only happened when I reposted. Ironically, despite the inscrutable subject line, this time I got one response, which is better than I can say for my previous attempt that did have a clear subject line... >> The problem persists after I updated from version 22.3.1 to 23.1.1, so >> I thought I'd try again. >> >> Whenever I start up Emacs, I get a warning of the form >> >> Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID . >> >> where stands for the PID of the Emacs process just being >> started. I.e. the process is tripping over itself. >> >> If I look at the entire *Messages* buffer at that moment, I see >> see something like this: >> >> Wrote /home/kynn/.emacs.desktop.lock >> Desktop: 6 buffers restored. >> Loading server...done >> setting customized faces >> Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID 893. >> Using it may cause conflicts. Use it anyway? (y or n) >> Desktop: 6 buffers restored. >> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. >> >> I find the repeated "Desktop: 6 buffers restored." suspicious. It >> makes me wonder if Emacs is running through the Desktop sequence >> twice, and that's why it complains about the lock file. >Yes, quite likely the reason. What is the output of >grep desktop ~/.emacs >on your system? It is likely that you are using two separate methods of >loading the desktop. Thanks, this hint helped a lot. kj