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> From: dboyd@attentigroup.com (J. David Boyd)
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:29:20 -0500
> 
> For years, I've started emacs with the --daemon option.   Then I've been able
> to start emacsclient with
> emacsclient -c -n, and got a new empty window to use as I please.
> 
> Sometime in the not too distant past, this changed.  If I run
> emacsclient -c -n, a window opens, then closes immediately.

You forgot to tell in which version of Emacs do you see this, and on
what OS.