Subject: bug#30421: 25.3; desktop.el: Steal lock when no living "emacs" process owns it

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 11:15:02 -0500

Pierre Neidhardt <[email-masked]> writes:

> I always run Emacs daemon.  And I think the following excerpt explains
> it all:
>
> 	(defun desktop-read (&optional dirname)
> 	...
> 	(or (null desktop-load-locked-desktop)
> 	    (daemonp)
> 	    (not (y-or-n-p (format "Warning: desktop file appears to be in use by PID %s.\n\
> 	Using it may cause conflicts.  Use it anyway? " owner))))
>
> Not sure why (daemonp) is here.  Removing this line would solve the issue.

'git blame' brings me to Bug#11674 "desktop doesn't handle unclean
restart under daemon mode".

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11674