Subject: Re: bug#2403: 23.0.90; emacs bootstrap under AIX hangs at lisp/international/characters.el

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:11:54 +0200

> From: Harald Maier <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:20:52 +0100
> Cc: 
> 
> Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Another idea: there is a bug being discussed on the list about loading
> > international/characters.
> > Can you please try removing this line:
> >  (load "international/characters")
> > from emacs/lisp/loadup.el
> > and see if that helps?
> 
> Yes, that helps and byte compiling of all the other lisp packages seems
> fine.
> [...]
> but then if
> I start emacs I get the following startup error in the function
> 
> "set_fontset_font":
> 
>   Invalid script or charset name: latin

This is expected, since lisp/international/characters.el is not
loaded.

Can you try loading it at startup time?  Something like this:

  emacs -Q -l characters.el