Emacsclient -c can not start

[favadi]

After commit 6948f4f8b7, I cannot use emacsclient properly.

When I run emacsclient -c, I get

Waiting for Emacs...
*ERROR*: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

But everything run well with emacsclient -t.

In my init.el.

;; Color theme
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/themes/solarized/")
(require 'color-theme)
(require 'color-theme-solarized)
(color-theme-solarized-dark)
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
          '(lambda (f)
             (with-selected-frame f
               (when (window-system f) (color-theme-solarized-dark)))))

My emacs version is 23.4.1.

Update:

I add these lines in my init.el.

(setq debug-on-error t)

And I still get

*ERROR*: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

Nothing more or less.

And if I start emacs normally (not with daemon-client) and run server-start, then emacsclient run well. If you need more information, please let me know.

[fvides]

I have observed exactly the same problem. I have emacs 23.3+1-1ubuntu9, bundle with ubuntu 12.04. It works fine with emacs, and emacsclient on the terminal, but fails as described with graphical emacsclient

[carljm]

Same problem here as well :/

[london111]

Same problem as well

[london111]

Is there any workaround for this?

[peterhoeg]

I had the same problem, but https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs works for me - this is assuming you are using emacs 24.

[ghost]

(GNU Emacs 23.2.1) I have the same problem (last commit) :

$ emacsclient.emacs23 -c ~/.emacs Waiting for Emacs... ERROR: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

And I can't get the bbatsov version working with emacs23 ...

[dsheets]

I believe this problem is caused by (display-color-cells) returning 0 when executed from a .emacs configuration in an emacs --daemon. Do you observe this behavior when you M-x server-start from a running, graphical emacs frame?

If that works for you, great!

Another solution is to replace all (display-color-cells) invocations with (display-color-cells (getenv "DISPLAY")). Unfortunately, this will make switching emacsclient between -c (create new frame) and -nw brittle but I believe it does work if you only care about the graphical display and perhaps that solution will satisfy you.

Finally, I opted to move to Debian sid, install emacs 24, and use bbatsov/solarized-emacs as suggested by @peterhoeg which works great.

I did try to use the emacs24 theme with after-make-frame-functions but it didn't work.

Hope this helps.

[sellout]

This problem no longer exists in the current version as we never call (display-color-cells) directly any more.