GNU bug report logs - #58877
29.0.50; [PATCH] When killing Emacs from a client frame with no other frames, Emacs shows a useless error prompt

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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58877: 29.0.50; [PATCH] When killing Emacs from a client frame with no other frames, Emacs shows a useless error prompt
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:31:07 -0800

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On 11/25/2022 5:25 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Are the tests supposed to be portable?

In theory, they should be. Apparently they aren't in practice.

> All of them fail due to some timeout:
> 
>    Test server-tests/emacsclient/create-frame backtrace:
>      signal(ert-test-failed ("timed out waiting for (length= (frame-list)
>      ert-fail("timed out waiting for (length= (frame-list) 2) to ...")
> 
> so this sounds like some fundamental issue common to all those tests.

Hm, it looks like the emacsclient may not be starting up correctly. 
Could you try the attached patch? I doubt this will fix the tests, but 
hopefully you'll get some more-useful error messages.

[0001-Improve-robustness-of-server.el-tests.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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