GNU bug report logs - #17957
24.3.92; Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon" and "desktop-save-mode"

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.92;
 Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon" and "desktop-save-mode"
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:36:19 +0200

Receipe from a command line:

  mkdir /tmp/t
  cd /tmp/t
  cat > .emacs <<EOF
    (add-to-list 'window-system-default-frame-alist '(nil . ((menu-bar-lines . 0))))
    (desktop-save-mode 1)
  EOF
  HOME=$PWD emacs --daemon
  emacsclient -n -c

Now in Emacs execute the commands 

  desktop-save
  kill-emacs

Restart Emacs with

  HOME=$PWD emacs --daemon

The menu bar has disappeared and a get an error message:

  Error (frameset): Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

-----------------
In GNU Emacs 24.3.92.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.9)
 of 2014-06-27 on justinian
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11404000
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/usr/local/emacs-24.3.92'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Message #8 received at 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
Cc: 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17957: 24.3.92;
 Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon" and "desktop-save-mode"
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:35:11 -0400

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:

>   mkdir /tmp/t
>   cd /tmp/t
>   cat > .emacs <<EOF
>     (add-to-list 'window-system-default-frame-alist '(nil . ((menu-bar-lines . 0))))
>     (desktop-save-mode 1)
>   EOF
>   HOME=$PWD emacs --daemon
>   emacsclient -n -c
>
> Now in Emacs execute the commands 
>
>   desktop-save
>   kill-emacs
>
> Restart Emacs with
>
>   HOME=$PWD emacs --daemon
>
> The menu bar has disappeared and a get an error message:
>
>   Error (frameset): Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil


Thanks for the nice report.

Following my change for

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17693

this issue does not seem to occur any more.

Message #11 received at 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17957: 24.3.92;
 Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon" and "desktop-save-mode"
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:26:45 +0200

Hi Glenn,

Glenn Morris writes:
> Following my change for
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17693
>
> this issue does not seem to occur any more.

That is a good change, I think, I was wondering if the behaviour was
intended.

OTOH I still think there is another issue.  An entry in
window-system-default-frame-alist for terminal type nil should not cause
changes for a graphical display, regardless what desktop.el does, right?
Unless desktop.el messes with these variables in the wrong way.  So
there is either a problem with the interpretation of these variables or
with desktop.el setting them wrong.  And it is not a problem caused by
an .emacs.desktop saved with the previous version.

benny

Message #14 received at 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17957: 24.3.92; Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon"
 and "desktop-save-mode"
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:23:08 +0200

Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net> writes:

> OTOH I still think there is another issue.  An entry in
> window-system-default-frame-alist for terminal type nil should not cause
> changes for a graphical display, regardless what desktop.el does, right?
> Unless desktop.el messes with these variables in the wrong way.  So
> there is either a problem with the interpretation of these variables or
> with desktop.el setting them wrong.  And it is not a problem caused by
> an .emacs.desktop saved with the previous version.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

I tried following the recipe (in Emacs 28), but I was unable to
reproduce the problem.  Are you still seeing this issue in more recent
versions of Emacs?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #19 received at 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17957: 24.3.92; Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon"
 and "desktop-save-mode"
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:52:53 +0200

Hi Lars,

> Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net> writes:
>> OTOH I still think there is another issue.  [...]

Lars Ingebrigtsen writes:
> I tried following the recipe (in Emacs 28), but I was unable to
> reproduce the problem.  Are you still seeing this issue in more recent
> versions of Emacs?

The original issue was fixed.  I was somehow wondering about a more
fundmental problem, but I can not at this time reconstruct what it was
or why I thought that the patch was not sufficient for that (I assume we
were talking about #c9f7ec736b here).

I think we can just close the bug and assume that any other issues have
been or will be dealt with when they cause actual problems.

Thanks, benny

Message #22 received at 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 17957 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17957: 24.3.92; Bad interaction between "emacs --daemon"
 and "desktop-save-mode"
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 16:10:24 +0200

Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net> writes:

> I think we can just close the bug and assume that any other issues have
> been or will be dealt with when they cause actual problems.

Yup.  I'm closing this bug report, then.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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