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GNU Emacs 23.1.1

I've noticed that if I run Emacs and M-x server-start, I can use the emacsclient program as usual, but if if I start Emacs using emacs --daemon and then try to use emacsclient the new frame locks up and the shell outputs *ERROR*: Arithmetic error.

This issue doesn't happen if I use the -t flag to force terminal mode when running emacsclient.

Has anyone run into this before? Anyone know what's going on and/or how to fix it?

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Try to run emacs --deamon -q to skip your .emacs, or emacs --deamon -Q to skip site file. If it work with the first one, then the problem is in the .emacs, if only the second one work, then the problem is with one of the package installed on your distribution, if both failed, the problem is with your version of .emacs. – Rémi May 10 '10 at 9:09

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Turns out this is (or, at least, seems to be) a variation of an issue I've had previously. For some reason the line

'(default ((t (:background "black" :foreground "white"))))

in my custom faces settings causes a lot of problems. Before it would just throw an error and complain about a color not existing whenever I ran emacsclient -c, but now it was completely freezing the frame.

I wasn't using any custom color theme when I originally added those settings, but now that I am it looks like I can remove it without any side-effects.

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Amazingly, this exact custom option was the cause of the pb for me too, even though I use a lot of other faces customization, this is the only one to remove in order to run emacsclient -c

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