Re: How to debug problem with emacsclient and init file

[Harry Putnam]

Jim Burton <jim@sdf-eu.org> writes:

> So I tried starting the emacs daemon without my init file and
> everything is fine -- I can open graphical emacsclients. This seems
> weird because I can open a new (X or terminal) emacs without getting
> any complaints about the init file. I thought about adding my init
> stuff back in gradually but there's rather a lot of it, and I wondered
> if there is a better way to debug this problem?

I'm not sure this even works when going thru emacsclient but does
turning on  debug-on-error show you any more userfull info:

Put:
 (setq eval-expression-debug-on-error t) 

Into ~/.emacs to find out.