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I've started using the emacsclient more along with the daemon, and I'm a huge fan, but it's started giving me trouble when I reboot my computer. After reboot when I open up a new emacsclient, I don't get the usual daemon startup stuff in my terminal. Then once the window opens, I am unable to input anything to the minibuffer. Any time I try typing, for example M-x or C-x C-f, I get an error message reading Error reading from stdin.

Killing emacs with pkill emacs and restarting fixes the issue, but I'd rather not have it in the first place. How can I tell the daemon to die, or clean up after itself, when I'm rebooting my computer? If it makes any difference, I'm on OpenSUSE 13.2 with KDE.

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  • The daemon definitely dies when you reboot your computer, and there should be no need to clean up. How are you starting the daemon?
    – T. Verron
    Commented May 28, 2015 at 21:29
  • I start the daemon with emacsclient &. I have export ALTERNATE_EDITOR="" and export EDITOR=emacsclient in my .bashrc file.
    – Ryan
    Commented May 28, 2015 at 23:06
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    Wow, I had no idea that starting the daemon was that simple nowadays... Anyway, your problem looks like you have a script running at system/session start-up and spawning a (non-functional for some reason) daemon.
    – T. Verron
    Commented May 29, 2015 at 5:17
  • I would use "emacs --daemon" to start the daemon, instead.
    – YoungFrog
    Commented May 29, 2015 at 13:54
  • I recently got the same error message; my issue was a line in my .emacs that was trying to (setcdr var 'foo) where var was nil, but I didn't see the error message until I tried starting emacs as emacs --debug-init instead of using emacsclient – the server/client is a bit finicky like that.
    – unhammer
    Commented Jun 29, 2016 at 12:03

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Following the comment of T. Verron, I determined that it was the following lines from my .emacs that caused the issue:

(require 'server)
(or (server-running-p)
    (server-start))

I've used this on Windows to allow me to open a file in an existing frame, but it's only needed there, as far as I can tell, because there is currently no Windows --daemon.

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  • This alone shouldn't be a problem.
    – T. Verron
    Commented May 29, 2015 at 16:38
  • Well, I'm not sure, but removing it fixed my problem. Maybe it was a combination of this and the way I was starting my daemon.
    – Ryan
    Commented May 29, 2015 at 18:04
  • Did you remove that lines to solve the issue?
    – alper
    Commented Feb 23, 2021 at 20:02

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