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bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the serv
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start |
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Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:43:48 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The problem here is that if the daemon signals an error any place
> during startup before it starts the server, there's no way at all to
> communicate with the daemon, so you cannot know what happened and why.
>
> So I think we should provide one of the following, in case of such
> errors:
>
> . exit the daemon and leave the description of the problem on some
> disk file, or display it on the screen
> . start the server and allow clients to connect and see the error
> message, with or without the backtrace
Ah, right -- in this error mode, the Emacs starts, but there's no
feedback on the error -- it just hangs, and if you `C-c' it on the
command line, the Emacs is running in the background, but the daemon
hasn't started.
So that's, indeed, a very bad way to handle errors here.
I don't know why the doc string here specifies that there's no error
handling of this hook in particular -- that's the default for hooks,
right?
It seems that it first appeared in 1992:
+ "Functions to call after loading the init file (~/.emacs).
+The call is not protected by a condition-case, so you can set `debug-on-error'
+in .emacs, and put all the actual code on `after-init-hook'.")
Which is even more confusing -- it seems like the point here is that
this is a way to run init code, but get debugging? We now have a
separate facility for that, so that bit doesn't seem very important any
more.
Anyway -- I think perhaps continuing on here and starting the daemon
might be the most useful solution here, perhaps?
--
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- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Gilles, 2021/03/27
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/03/28
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/28
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/28
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/03/28
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Gilles, 2021/03/28
- bug#47439: 27.2; In daemon mode, if after-init-hook errors out, the server does not start, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/28