Subject: bug#16049: 24.3.50; Crash on startup on Mac OS X 10.9

From: martin rudalics <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:39:18 +0100

> Emacs (build from the git repo by HomeBrew today) crashes on startup. The only thing happening when I try to open it when parsing “-Q" is that it exists immediately with the text:
> 
> 	"Font `Menlo' is not defined”
> 
> But Menlo is installed. The below stack trace was captured in a Mac crash report. Emacs was build with:
> 
> 	"brew install -v emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa —srgb”
> 
> 
> Below the crash report you can find information about the build.

Thanks for the report.  The behavior you observe is due to the recent pixelwise change
(see Bug#16018).  Unfortunately, none of our NS gurus was so far able to explain the
immediate cause of this bug (obviously, there are lot more bugs to expect after this).

martin