On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 14:32 -0400, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Wolodja Wentland writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > the emacs daemon crashes every time I am closing a client frame. The > > behaviour can be consistently reproduced with the following steps: > > > > 1. emacs --daemon > > When you do this, do you get a warning like: > > Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715 > Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost. > Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem. > > If yes, then you quite likely hit the Gtk+ bug mentioned above. Indeed I do. Does this imply that I cannot use the daemon functionality until the GTK bug has been resolved or if I recompile Emacs with --with-x-toolkit=lucid? Thanks for the prompt reply and please apologise that I did not include this information in the initial report. Have a good day! -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC