emacsclient does not work

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Symptoms:

Emacs server does not start up on this version.

Just in case you doubt, I have this entry in my dotemacs -
  
(server-start)
 
And functions alongside GNU-emacs version 21.2.1 from debian.

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.6 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.1)
 of 2003-11-01 on nandini
configured using `configure '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff' 
'--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-gtk' '--with-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<S-down-mouse-1> <help-echo> <S-down-mouse-1> <S-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <S-down-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<U0D02> b u <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> M-x 
b u <tab> g C-g M-x s u b m <tab> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> e m a <tab> g <backspace> b 
u <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> s u 
<tab> n r i <tab> <return> + 7 6 <return> 8 . 1 0 <left> 
<left> <left> <left> + <return> C-x 1 <U0D02> M-x r 
e p <tab> o <tab> r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
backward-delete-char-untabify: Beginning of buffer
Making completion list...
Quit
Making completion list...
Loading solar...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading solar...done
Type C-x 1 to remove temp window.
Making completion list... [2 times]
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