GNU bug report logs - #11813
Segmentation fault on launch related to x_draw_glyph_string_background

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Left Right <olegsivokon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 11850

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #94 received at 11813 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Left Right <olegsivokon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 11850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 11813 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Yotam Medini יותם מדיני
	<yotam.medini <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#11850: bug#11813: bug#11850: crash (null font) running emacs
	built from git
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:25:55 +0800

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> 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.
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