Package: emacs-bin-common Version: 1:27.1+1-3.1 Severity: normal File: emacs.service
There are a few reports of this online, and I've personnally experienced it myself. Here's a good example: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/do67z3/emacsservice_will_delay_2_mins_before/ In the above, Emacs hangs the shutdown sequence for 2 minutes, waiting for the user to say "yes" to: Buffer recentf<3> modified; kill anyway? which, I'm sure you will agree, is kind of silly. It's nice that systemd is waiting for the user to answer, but it's not nice that (a) it's hanging the shutdown process, and especially (b) that it ends up killing it with SIGKILL in the end anyways, losing those unsaved buffers. A workaround proposed in the above thread is to use this ExecStop: ExecStop=/usr/bin/emacsclient --eval "(save-buffers-kill-terminal t)" But I've found that it fails here to, as I have a `confirm-kill-emacs` variable (set to `y-or-n-p`) which still prompts for exit. So it seems that needs to be overriden as well. I've been experimenting with: ExecStop=/usr/bin/emacsclient --eval "(let ((confirm-kill-emacs nil)) (save-buffers-kill-terminal t))" ... but so far, Emacs still takes forever to stop. It might be that I'm failing to use the override directory, however. Who knows... I think a reproducer for this is to have this in your .emacs: (setq confirm-kill-emacs 'y-or-n-p) Then start emacs from systemd: systemctl start emacs And then try to stop it: systemctl stop emacs Normally, this should be very quick, but it will take a while to stop, I think the timeout is at two minutes. Then you will see this in status: sep 13 12:49:27 curie systemd[168846]: emacs.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing. sep 13 12:49:27 curie systemd[168846]: emacs.service: Killing process 185133 (emacs) with signal SIGKILL. sep 13 12:49:27 curie systemd[168846]: emacs.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL sep 13 12:49:27 curie systemd[168846]: emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. A. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages emacs-bin-common depends on: ii emacs-common 1:27.1+1-3.1 ii libc6 2.31-13 Versions of packages emacs-bin-common recommends: ii mailutils 1:3.10-3+b1 emacs-bin-common suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
