emacsclient can't connect to socket

[Mario Domgörgen]

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When i use emacsclient from a xterm i get the following error:

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| address@hidden:drache$ emacsclient ~/.emacs 
| emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
| To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
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But i have started the server from my .emacs with '(server-start)' and
even restarting it drom within emacs with M-x server-start don't change
the situation. M-x list-processes gives me the following line:

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| server listen (none) (network stream server on
| /tmp/emacs1001-5100784654140001/server)
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And for the end the above directory:

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| /tmp/emacs1001-5100784654140001 $ ls -l
| total 0
| srwx------   1 drache   drache          0 Jul 24 22:35 server
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I have the error not just in this cvs-version, but also in the versions
from the last four days.


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2003-07-24 on debian
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/stow/emacs-20030724' 
'--with-gtk''

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: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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