GNU bug report logs - #76870
31.0.50; server-start with non-nil arg LEAVE-DEAD can write confusing warnings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>

Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 15:46:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 31.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 76870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>
Cc: 76870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76870: 31.0.50; server-start with non-nil arg LEAVE-DEAD can
 write confusing warnings
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:54:56 +0200

> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:46:27 +0100
> Cc: 76870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jens Schmidt <jschmidt4gnu <at> vodafonemail.de>
> 
> 
> C-u M-x server-start RET
> 
>   ⛔ Warning (server): Unable to stop an external Emacs server.

How do you know it is an "external" server process?  Stopping the
server could fail for a variety of reasons, and I don't think we
should confuse the user with our guesses, except if we present that as
a guess.  So something like

  ⛔ Warning (server): Unable to stop the server.
  The existing Emacs server, called "server", could not be stopped.
  (Perhaps it was run from a different Emacs session?)
  You can try stopping the server forcibly by calling M-x server-force-delete.
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