I am trying to use desktop functionality (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DeskTop) in emacs. I added following code to my .emacs:
(require desktop)
(setq desktop-save t)
(setq desktop-load-locked-desktop t)
(setq *desktop-dir* (list (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/desktop")))
(setq desktop-base-file-name ".emacs.desktop")
(setq desktop-path *desktop-dir*)
(setq desktop-dir *desktop-dir*)
(desktop-save-mode 1)
(desktop-read)
If I use emacs like a standalone application, calling like "$emacs -nw", everything is fine, but when I try to use the same config with emacsclient, emacs just hangs on server starting. Commenting out two last lines make emacs server start as expected.
See part of official Gentoo script from /etc/init.d tostart emacs daemon.
: ${EMACS:=/usr/bin/emacs}
: ${EMACS_OPTS:=--daemon}
: ${EMACS_SHELL=/bin/bash}
: ${EMACS_START:=/usr/libexec/emacs/emacs-wrapper.sh}
: ${EMACS_TIMEOUT:=30}
: ${EMACS_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT:=10}
USER=${SVCNAME#*.}
PIDFILE_DIR=/var/run/emacs/${USER}
PIDFILE=${PIDFILE_DIR}/emacs.pid
...
local home
checkconfig || return 1
eval home="~${USER}"
SHELL=${EMACS_SHELL:-$(awk -F: "$1 == "${USER}" { print $7 }"
/etc/passwd)}
export SHELL EMACS EMACS_TIMEOUT
ebegin "Starting Emacs daemon for user ${USER}"
if [ -z "${RC_SVCNAME}" ]; then
# baselayout-1
start-stop-daemon --start
--user "${USER}" --exec "${EMACS}" --pidfile "${PIDFILE}"
--chuid "${USER}" --chdir "${home}" --env HOME="${home}"
--startas "${EMACS_START}" -- ${EMACS_OPTS}
else
# OpenRC
start-stop-daemon --start
--user "${USER}" --pidfile "${PIDFILE}" --chdir "${home}"
--exec "${EMACS_START}" -- ${EMACS_OPTS}
fi
eend $?
Is possible to debug emacsclient problems somehow? Maybe someone could give a hint?
P.S. I is on Gentoolav, emacs-vcs-23.2.9999 plan, only.