Re: annoying behavior of emacs --daemon

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  > >   > When using --daemon, you initially have no frames.  You can then make
  > >   > new frames with emacsclient -c or emacsclient -t, but if they're X
  > >   > frames, closing the last such created frame (with C-x # or C-x C-c)
  > >   > kills the emacs process!
  > >
  > > I can't reproduce this...
  > >
  > > Can you reproduce this with 
  > > emacs -Q --daemon
  > > ?
  > 
  > Sure:
  > 
  >    $ emacs --daemon -Q 
  >    ("emacs" "-Q")
  >    For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
  >    $ pidof emacs
  >    9730 9424
  >    $ emacsclient -c ~/.bashrc 
  >    Waiting for Emacs...
  >    <... close emacs window with C-x C-c or C-x # ...>
  >    $ pidof emacs
  >    9424
  > 
  > [The 9424 process is my normal long-lived emacs process, but emacsclient
  > seems to connect to the last-started process.]
  > 
  > If I use emacsclient -t, on the other hand:
  > 
  >    $ emacs --daemon -Q 
  >    ("emacs" "-Q")
  >    For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
  >    $ pidof emacs
  >    9744 9424
  >    $ emacsclient -t ~/.bashrc 
  >    <... close emacs window with C-x C-c or C-x # ...>
  >    $ pidof emacs
  >    9744 9424
  > 
  > The same thing happens whether I kill the window with C-x C-c (bound to
  > `save-buffers-kill-terminal'), or C-x # (bound to `server-edit').
  > 
  > Emacs is checked out from CVS this morning.

I still cannot reproduce this, with emacs freshly checked out and after
a "make maintainer-clean" and /bin/rm -f /tmp/emacs*/server

Can you please try to debug and find out why emacs dies for you?