GNU bug report logs - #7629
23.2; Remote X Emacsclient Frame Issue

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: William Gardella <gardellawg <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 23.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 7629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: William Gardella <gardellawg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7629: 23.2; Remote X Emacsclient Frame Issue
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:07:34 +0800

William Gardella <gardellawg <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 6.  If I have already closed my remote X emacsclient, the first server
>     appears completely unresponsive and cannot be revived with, e.g.,
>     emacsclient --eval \(server-start\).  All subsequent attempts to
>     connect an emacsclient go to the new server process.

I believe this is a known problem with GTK builds of Emacs.  GTK cannot
handle disconnections gracefully; see etc/PROBLEMS.  In the current
pretest (which will be 23.3), Emacs will handle this by aborting if the
X connection closes.
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