GNU bug report logs - #20675
24.3; emacsclient cannot talk to emacs

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20675 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20675: 24.3; emacsclient cannot talk to emacs
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:46:22 +0200

Bruce Korb <bruce.korb <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I have no idea what may have triggered the bug.
> I am using emacsclient and emacs just fine for quite a while,
> then all of a sudden:
>
>> $ emacsclient cscope.files
>> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
>> To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>> emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
>>
>>         --socket-name
>>         --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
>>         --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
>
> so I start up another xterm running bash and everything is fine.
> For a while.  Then the same thing happens.  I do *NOT* have to restart
> emacs or even the server code.  I have to start another xterm.
> (Re-exec-ing bash does no good.)  So, clearly, something is scrogged
> in the xterm so that it cannot talk to...........
>
> AH HA!!
>
> The problem is that I need to redirect TMPDIR to different places for
> different tasks.  So that explainer above might get expanded to include
> mention of the fact that this directory:  ${TMPDIR}/emacs$(id -u)
> is used for communication.  I'd have found the problem long ago.
>
> So please consider this an RFE to the above "can't find socket" message.

Are you saying that you are trying to use emacsclient with a different
$TMPDIR than the one you used for the emacs server?

Best regards,
Stefan Kagas

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.