This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list and the gnu.emacs.bug news group, and at http://debbugs.gnu.org. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from `emacs -Q': With emacs *not* running, open a normal command shell window. I used cmd.exe on Windows 7 for this test. Check that the right version of emacsclient is being run, then run it with emacs still *not* running: C:\Users\fjw>emacsclient -v emacsclient 23.2.90 C:\Users\fjw>emacsclient -a runemacs foo emacsclient: connect: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. The problem is the error/warning message that this produces. I don't think it happened in emacs 23.2. It's more of a problem when using emacsclientw, because that puts up a dialogue box containing the message. Once I acknowledge that, emacs opens. Surely, when an alternative editor is specified, there is no need for the warning, especially with emacsclientw. 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'. For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file c:/Emacs/emacs-23.2.90/etc/DEBUG. In GNU Emacs 23.2.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-11-11 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/imagesupport/include' 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: ENG value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t recentf-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: Recent messages: Loading delsel...done Loading recentf...done Loading paren...done Loading c:/Users/fjw/AppData/Roaming/.recentf...done Cleaning up the recentf list... File c:/Users/fjw/foo removed from the recentf list Cleaning up the recentf list...done (1 removed) For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. (New file) Load-path shadows: c:/Users/fjw/Emacs/site-lisp/whitespace hides c:/Emacs/emacs-23.2.90/lisp/whitespace c:/Users/fjw/Emacs/site-lisp/ls-lisp hides c:/Emacs/emacs-23.2.90/lisp/ls-lisp Features: (shadow sort mail-extr message ecomplete rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailcap mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 qp ietf-drums mailabbrev nnheader gnus-util netrc time-date mm-util mail-prsvr gmm-utils mailheader canlock sha1 hex-util hashcash mail-utils emacsbug saveplace paren recentf tree-widget wid-edit easymenu delsel cus-start cus-load server tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag 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 loaddefs button minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)