Re: emacsclient does not start: How to create a server file?

[Stefan Husmann <stefan-husmann@t-online.de>]

Am 18.03.2013 00:02, schrieb William Gardella:
> emacsclient -a ""

Thank you for your reply. I tried your suggestion, and obviously the daemon cannot be started. Its the same with or without server running.

[haawda@frege src]$ ALTERNATE_EDITOR="" emacsclient ~/.emacs
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.
("emacs")
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Starting Emacs daemon.
Emacs daemon should have started, trying to connect again
Error: Cannot connect even after starting the Emacs daemon

The build funtion is this:
# after some download stuff
  cd $srcdir/${_bzrmod}-build
   export LANG=C
   export CFLAGS="`pkg-config --cflags webkitgtk-3.0 ` -DHAVE_WEBKIT_OSR -g"
   export LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs webkitgtk-3.0 `

   ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-xwidgets \
     --enable-asserts --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-sound \
     --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --with-rsvg \
     --with-gconf

   make bootstrap
   make

The full PKGBUILD can be seen at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/em/emacs-xwidget-bzr/PKGBUILD.

Best Regards Stefan