Hello! Very reliably this variant can be built, but it crashes at launch time. This can be a local issue with a LucidaSans-Typewriter font. Launching the NS variant with -Q makes it stop and report that this font can't found, so I started to debug as if launched normally. When it crashes a new window opens, showing xfaces.c (Bzr-107490) with an arrow in the fringe pointing to line #4841: if (! EQ (face->font->props[i], def_face->font->props[i])) Since the debug output contains binary characters I saved it as raw- text to a file, which I am attaching here: