bug#1019: 23.0.60; emacs --daemon doesn't work on a console

[Tassilo Horn <thorn@fastmail.fm>]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I'd like to start an emacs daemon on startup in a runlevel script.  So I
added

  su --login --command 'emacs --daemon' horn

but that doesn't start a daemon.  So I tried issuing

  emacs --daemon

or

  emacs -Q --daemon

on a login shell, but that returns instantly and doesn't start an emacs
daemon, too.  Running inside gdb only says "Program exited normally."

When issuing the same commands inside a X terminal emulator they work as
they should, though.

What's going wrong?

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2008-09-23 on thinkpad
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10500000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--program-suffix=-emacs-23' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/emacs-23' '--with-sound' '--with-x' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-rsvg' '--with-tiff' '--with-xpm' '--with-freetype' '--with-xft' '--with-libotf' '--with-m17n-flt' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--without-hesiod' '--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-gpm' '--with-dbus' '--build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -ggdb -O1 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Group

Minor modes in effect:
  gnus-topic-mode: t
  gnus-undo-mode: t
  yas/minor-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  window-number-meta-mode: t
  window-number-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  exec-abbrev-cmd-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x g <return> <return> <escape> <escape> <escape> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <return> y SPC <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> SPC <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> SPC <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <return> 
<return> <return> <return> <return> <return> <backspace> 
^ c <return> SPC SPC c M-x r e b <return> <right> 
<return>

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