From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Persistent emacs.desktop lockfile Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:41:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6apohiF38u5fsU1@mid.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212680911 29596 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2008 15:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Arne Schmitz" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 17:49:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4Hhk-0004s5-8c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:48:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38138 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4Hgx-0007m1-Kl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4Hgd-0007jl-8U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4Hgc-0007hp-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37289 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4Hgb-0007hW-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:5583) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4Hgb-0005gj-NP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:47:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.251]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4Cu6-00059U-1n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so891780rvb.6 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:41:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bPxgM49Q+ihlGAM2gzvUn5j2Efe6dJMgPHAygBLjq4s=; b=aVpByhbyWDXlddkaea112GUDd5MWvQmrCswyh6CIAwQS7AKtm6i8U0MTG7FpYd+xOO 6qmNENnYPuCNfZhFJVNFvM9wG92xIY3r2T7kFUE+DlICT+UhZE+QFkbFs2U9JPX+G+tJ Pm8Q1VyAaLi8spRwa9a89xc9L12Qe28ZVTBcU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=wcrVBqdWDT/fwLR/tDux0GRNMSVH781g88oiOTzwTECe76ApAMNHR7ys4JvffaXLkt HD5W8s5RDTl71WISlK0/v4ZUWRDfDJ9jOfFgQ0QfjWGALVgkoOOpXaDXjGt4InYAnRKs lymeJ1BiG6VsI3pbYpyZOLyeoIp/rh9wzT8A4= Original-Received: by 10.114.73.14 with SMTP id v14mr1243179waa.163.1212662466747; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.167.17 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 03:41:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6apohiF38u5fsU1@mid.dfncis.de> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54474 Archived-At: > I am using GNU Emacs 22.2.1 with the desktop package. Since a few weeks (I > guess since one of the Debian updates), I always get the message that my > desktop file is being used by another emacs instance. This is untrue and I > have to acknowledge the usage of the desktop file every time I run Emacs. > How can I get this to work again flawlessly? It seems that > the .emacs.desktop.lock file remains after I quit Emacs. If you're sure that no two Emacs instances run at the same time, you can perhaps work around the problem by setting `desktop-load-locked-desktop' to t. Though you should try to investigate why is the lock file not being deleted. Juanma