Chong Yidong writes: > There have been a couple of changes to the font code over the last few > weeks. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce your original bug, but could > you check if these changes have had any effect? Yes, this still happens. The recipe has changed a little, since -Q now diables the splash screen. I do the following: EMACS_FONT_LOG=1 emacs -q -no-site-file -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono:size=15" I have attached the result of a recent invocation of M-x font-show-log. A picture is also attached. My configure invocation has not changed since the last time. I am running the Debian unstable GNU/Linux distribution. I am happy to give more debugging information if you can give me a place to start. I am well acquainted with running emacs in gdb.