bug#19175: 24.4; make-frame-on-display fails if emacs started with -nw

[Mario Becroft <mb@becroft.co.nz>]

emacs -nw
M-x make-frame-on-display RET
When prompted: myhost:0 RET

Expected result:

A new X11 frame is created on the specified X11 display 'myhost:0'

Actual result:

In minibuffer, the following message appears:

Display myhost:0 can't be opened

Note:

DISPLAY=myhost:0 emacs

works fine, and make-frame-on-display works. It's only when starting
emacs with -nw (or, more importantly, --daemon) that
make-frame-on-display subsequently fails.

This is *not* a simple X authorization problem or anything like that.

The strace output from the point where emacs connects to the X server to
when it closes the connection, without having read or written any data,
follows (actual IP address of target X server host elided and replaced
with 192.168.1.2):

----
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC, IPPROTO_TCP) = 10
setsockopt(10, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
setsockopt(10, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [1], 4) = 0
connect(10, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(6000), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.2")}, 16) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGIO (I/O possible) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0x1d)                      = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
close(10)                               = 0
----




In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of 2014-11-25 on ak2
Configured using:
 `configure --without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x
 --with-x-toolkit=lucid --without-xft'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  rcirc-track-minor-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
SPC L i n u x SPC d e s k t o p SPC s y s t e m , SPC 
j u s t SPC s a y : RET D I S P L A Y = : 0 SPC e m 
a c s SPC - n w RET M - x SPC m a k e - f r a m e - 
o n - d i s p l a y RET W h e n SPC p r o m p t e d 
SPC e n t e r : SPC : 0 RET I f SPC a SPC n e w SPC 
f r a m e SPC a p p e a r s , SPC t h e SPC n i t SPC 
i DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL n SPC i t SPC i s SPC w o 
r k i n g RET I f SPC t h e SPC t e x t SPC ' D i s 
p l a y SPC : 0 SPC c a n ' t SPC b e SPC o p e n e 
d ' SPC a p p e a r s SPC i n SPC t h e SPC m i n i 
b u f f e r , SPC t h e n SPC t h e SPC b u g ESC b 
ESC b y o u SPC h a v e SPC RET ESC [ > 0 ; 2 4 2 ; 
0 c ESC ] 1 1 ; r g b : f f f f / f f f f / f f f f 
ESC \ ESC x r e p o TAB r t TAB RET

Recent messages:
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
x-initialize-window-system: Display 10.87.0.1:0 can't be opened
x-initialize-window-system: Display 10.89.6.1:0 can't be opened [2 times]
Connecting to chat.freenode.net...done
Quit
Making completion list...
Rcirc-Track minor mode disabled
Rcirc-Track minor mode enabled
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
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mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils
mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mail-utils help-mode
easymenu disp-table network-stream auth-source eieio byte-opt bytecomp
byte-compile cconv eieio-core gnus-util mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr
password-cache starttls tls rcirc ring xterm server jabber-autoloads
package epg-config escreen time-date paren cus-start cus-load tooltip
electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd
tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment
lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select
scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham
georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao
korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic
indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple
abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files
text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
gfilenotify dynamic-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 144895 13629)
 (symbols 48 21822 0)
 (miscs 40 256 529)
 (strings 32 22112 4517)
 (string-bytes 1 584096)
 (vectors 16 11221)
 (vector-slots 8 410639 4818)
 (floats 8 80 297)
 (intervals 56 4036 233)
 (buffers 960 26)
 (heap 1024 23508 585))