From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs.desktop non-functional Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:35:04 +0000 Message-ID: <87vb4ghj6v.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <56ECACE1.4090005@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458513335 19588 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2016 22:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: gebser@mousecar.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 23:35:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ahlwR-0000CG-Ub for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:35:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahlwR-0001Za-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:35:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahlwH-0001ZV-Ay for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahlwD-0006Mf-BS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:35:13 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.7]:34842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ahlwD-0006Lt-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FEC198B71 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 2003 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2016 22:35:06 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.4.68]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 20 Mar 2016 22:35:06 -0000 In-Reply-To: <56ECACE1.4090005@mousecar.com> (message from ken on Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:35:29 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.7 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109641 Archived-At: ken writes: > The minibuffer says "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID > 4074. Using it may cause conflicts. Use it anyway?" PID 4074 doesn't > exist... probably from a crashed session. Have you tried disabling Emacs --daemon and started Emacs the normal way? Does that help? Have you tried renaming the old emacs.desktop files so the current Emacs can't see them? That could help. BR, Robert Thorpe