Re : breakage in emacsclient

[Paul Dufresne]

I am unfamiliar with emacs, but following your message I decided to give a try.

I first found the latest released version is 27.1.

At first, I was not using --enable-kvm with qemu-system-i386, but because emacs is relatively big, it helps a lot.

So, as root, I "wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-27.1.tar.gz"

did "tar xvzf emacs-27.1.tar.gz",

cd emacs-27.1

apt-get install ncurses-dev

./configure --with-x-toolkit=no --without-all

make

make install

then "emacs" works

when doing emacs-client, it was saying I needed to start emacs server...

did read: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon

pidof emacs

kill -9 [for each pid of emacs] because I had done some other things before

emacs --daemon

after that I can:

emacsclient allo.txt

Ctrl-X Ctrl-C to permanently quit

emacsclient -e '(kill-emacs)'

... that kill the emacs in --daemon mode

after that: emacsclient allo2.txt give me an error message quite similar to your but without: Invalid socket owner

so it could be specific to futur version 28.