?? emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? <--Why this?

?? emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? <--Why this?

[Christian Seberino]

I started an emacs session and ran server-start.

I then opened an xterm and verified $EDITOR was set to emacsclient.

I then did "emacsclient somefile" hoping it would run in my old emacs

process but instead I got following message....

emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? 

What am I doing wrong?? What is this about a socket??

Chris

Re: ?? emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? <--Why this?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I started an emacs session and ran server-start.
> I then opened an xterm and verified $EDITOR was set to emacsclient.
> I then did "emacsclient somefile" hoping it would run in my old emacs
> process but instead I got following message....
> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? 
> What am I doing wrong??

Assuming both processes are run on the same machine by the same user, this
looks like a bug.  Please give more information about the Emacs version
you're using and the `emacsclient' version you're using.

> What is this about a socket??

A `socket' is a thingy used to comunicate between processes.
Most likely your problem is that emacsserver created a socket
named /tmp/foo and emacsclient tries to access the socket /tmp/bar.


        Stefan

Re: ?? emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? <--Why this?

[Christian Seberino]

Stefan

Thanks so much for your help.  I was
using emacs server and emacsclient from DIFFERENT Emacs versions.

I have 2 (1 from default install and 1 from CVS server) Emacs versions.

Using right emacsclient made everything work.

Thanks again,

Chris



"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message news:<jwvsmmwxun2.fsf@vor.iro.umontreal.ca>...
> > I started an emacs session and ran server-start.
> > I then opened an xterm and verified $EDITOR was set to emacsclient.
> > I then did "emacsclient somefile" hoping it would run in my old emacs
> > process but instead I got following message....
> > emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server? 
> > What am I doing wrong??
> 
> Assuming both processes are run on the same machine by the same user, this
> looks like a bug.  Please give more information about the Emacs version
> you're using and the `emacsclient' version you're using.
> 
> > What is this about a socket??
> 
> A `socket' is a thingy used to comunicate between processes.
> Most likely your problem is that emacsserver created a socket
> named /tmp/foo and emacsclient tries to access the socket /tmp/bar.
> 
> 
>         Stefan