<div dir="ltr">Hi, I am trying to write an upstart script that will start and gracefully shutdown emacs with my system. However, initctl stop emacs does not work. Basically, when I run initctl stop emacs: dmesg only shows [ 4363.589893] init: emacs goal changed from stop to start on ctrl-c of initctl stop emacs, ps aux | grep emacs shows eric 13008 14.5 0.0 291228 29200 ? Ssl 23:46 0:01 /usr/bin/emacs --daemon -u eric indicating that it never killed the daemon However, if I kill the daemon by sending SIGTERM or by running emacsclient -n -e '(kill-emacs)', then dmesg shows [ 4378.169286] init: emacs state changed from spawned to stopping [ 4378.169314] init: event_new: Pending stopping event [ 4378.169325] init: Handling stopping event [ 4378.169392] init: event_finished: Finished stopping event [ 4378.169399] init: emacs state changed from stopping to killed [ 4378.169431] init: emacs state changed from killed to post-stop [ 4378.169450] init: emacs state changed from post-stop to waiting [ 4378.169473] init: event_new: Pending stopped event [ 4378.169484] init: job_change_state: Destroyed inactive instance emacs [ 4378.169542] init: Handling stopped event [ 4378.169594] init: event_finished: Finished stopped event It's important to me that I run code in pre-stop to save my emacs buffers, and obvs. that isn't working either. How can I fix this? I've posted the details of problem here: <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/353288/upstart-not-starting-emacs-daemon">http://askubuntu.com/questions/353288/upstart-not-starting-emacs-daemon</a> Thanks, Eric </div>