Subject: Re: bug#11850: bug#11813: bug#11850: crash (null font) running emacs built from git

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:25:55 +0800

Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> writes:

> Nimbus Mono does require Freetype, but if you compile without Xft,
> Emacs shouldn't be looking for that font at all.  I verified this by
> doing
>
> ./configure --with-xft=no
> make
> ./src/emacs -q
>
> Then Emacs displays the welcome screen fine
> Here's something to try: could you try making sure there are no X
> resources specified, by doing
>
> xrdb -remove
>
> and running `emacs -Q' to eliminate all customizations?  Does the font
> problem still show up in that case?

Hi, could you try the steps suggested in this email and let us know the
results?  Thanks.