Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

     update to emacs-gtk 28.x (probably from 27.x)

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

     I'm running a systemd --user emacs daemon, with the update to emacs 28.x
     it fails to start.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

     An emacs server should be started as a systemd --user service.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

     emacs fails to start and the systemd service unit timesout:

$ systemctl --user start emacs.service
Job for emacs.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl --user status emacs.service" and "journalctl --user -xeu emacs.service" for details.

Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger systemd[1453]: Starting Emacs text editor...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem.
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading debian-ispell (native compiled elisp)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading debian-ispell (native compiled elisp)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50global.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50global.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latexmk.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latexmk.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50systemtap-common.el (source)...
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50systemtap-common.el (source)...done
Dez 31 14:48:13 hardanger emacs[34959]: Starting Emacs daemon.
Dez 31 14:51:13 hardanger systemd[1453]: emacs.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Dez 31 14:51:13 hardanger systemd[1453]: emacs.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Dez 31 14:51:13 hardanger systemd[1453]: Failed to start Emacs text editor.
Dez 31 14:51:14 hardanger systemd[1453]: emacs.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.

After downgrading to 27.x the problem persisted. Completely removing
Emacs and all elpa components and then reinstalling them fixed the
problem.

Sorry for the noise,
Marc

now.

Marc