emacs daemon inhibits logout

[Anders Kaseorg]

Binary package hint: emacs23

After using emacs in daemon mode through emacsclient -c, I get an extra prompt and long delays on logout, because GNOME decides that the running emacs daemon is “not responding”.

This can be reproduced by running
  emacsclient -a "" -c whatever
then closing the window and logging out. A screenshot of the resulting dialog box is attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: emacs23 23.2+1-7ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.39-0.5-generic 2.6.39-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.39-0-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 5 19:30:42 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emacs23
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Klaus Reichl (klaus-reichl)]

Hi Anders,

This has been a bug for long, good that you reported, I was always to lazy.
If there is some time I'll debug this.

Klaus

[Dan Vokt (dv+launchpad)]

Why was this marked invalid?

I am also having this issue.

I am running emacsclient version 23.1 under ubuntu 10.04 LTS up to date as of 201107241148

Any workarounds?

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

From personal experience I can confirm this issue

[Ryan Thompson (rct86)]

This problem is worse in GNOME 3, where there is no way to skip the 60-second delay on log out (except by killing the Emacs daemon, which kind of defeats the point of having a daemon).

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

Isn't there some dbus signal emitted when the users request
logout/shutdown/reboot? In that case, you could probably write some
elisp code that reacts to that signal and terminates the daemon
automatically.

--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

I'm marking this as a duplicate of a more recent bug report, to see if it gets some attention.

Marked as duplicate of bug 1079820