> From: Patrick Nicodemus <gadget...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 13:22:30 -0400 > > I want to run Emacs as a service and connect to it with a client. I > followed the instructions here: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html > > and ran the command > systemctl --user enable emacs > > This apparently creates a file at > ~/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/emacs.service > > whose contents are: > > [Unit] > Description=Emacs text editor > Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/ > > [Service] > Type=notify > ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/emacs --fg-daemon > > # Emacs will exit with status 15 after having received SIGTERM, which > # is the default "KillSignal" value systemd uses to stop services. > SuccessExitStatus=15 > > # The location of the SSH auth socket varies by distribution, and some > # set it from PAM, so don't override by default. > # Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/keyring/ssh > Restart=on-failure > > [Install] > WantedBy=default.target > > The directions also say: > (If your Emacs was installed into a non-standard location, you may need > to copy the emacs.service file to a standard directory such as > ~/.config/systemd/user/.) > > I built this emacs distribution from source and installed it using "sudo > make install"; the executable is at /usr/local/bin/emacs, so I don't > think it is installed in a non-standard location, and so I did not > follow these instructions. > > I modified the [Service] command above to include the -Q flag for the > purposes of this bug report. > > After activating the service, restarting, etc., my journalctl output is > as follows: > > Sep 07 12:52:45 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. > Sep 07 12:52:45 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. > Sep 07 12:52:45 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > Failed to start emacs.service - Emacs text editor. > Sep 07 12:52:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1. > Sep 07 12:52:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > Starting emacs.service - Emacs text editor... > Sep 07 12:52:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 emacs[183514]: > Starting Emacs daemon. > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > Failed to start emacs.service - Emacs text editor. > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2. > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > Starting emacs.service - Emacs text editor... > Sep 07 12:54:16 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 emacs[183623]: > Starting Emacs daemon. > Sep 07 12:55:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. > Sep 07 12:55:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. > Sep 07 12:55:46 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > Failed to start emacs.service - Emacs text editor. > Sep 07 12:55:47 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3. > Sep 07 12:55:47 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 systemd[2704]: > Starting emacs.service - Emacs text editor... > Sep 07 12:55:47 patrick-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-Gen-10 emacs[183684]: > Starting Emacs daemon. > > etc., etc., every ninety seconds. > > For some reason emacs is not successfully communicating to systemd that > it has launched successfully, and so systemd terminates emacs.
According to this: > Configured features: > ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ > IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP > NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF > TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB your Emacs is built without libsystemd support, which I think is required for this to work? Or maybe I'm missing something.
