Subject: bug#10304: display bug

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:11:38 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:20:31 +0200
> 
> Bisecting my ~/.emacs, the following form provokes the display error for me:
> 
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
>              '(font . "-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-iso8859-1"))
> 
> On other machines, there is the same ~/.emacs w/o problems. On the
> machine in question, I have two matching fonts:
> 
> -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
> -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
> 
> Does this tell you anything?

Not really, unfortunately: I know very little about fonts and how
Emacs uses them.

But if we continue your line of investigation: does removing one of
these fonts solve the problem with the original ~/.emacs?