Two days ago, a patch was sent to Guix updating libx11 to a newer version in order to fix CVE-2020-14344. This causes a segmentation fault in Emacs when trying to start an X window. After invoking GDB, I found the offending line to be: /* Determine XIC style */ xic_style = best_xim_style (FRAME_X_XIM_STYLES (f)); For some reason, FRAME_X_XIM_STYLES (f) returns NULL here and best_xim_style fails when ARRAYELTS is called on it. I've attached a patch, that checks for this case. Regards, Leo