Subject: Re: bug#28498: 25.2; Crash calling `find-font' on text-only terminals on macOS

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:32:26 +0100

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 04:31:44PM +0100, Duncan Harvey wrote:
> Run:
>   .../path/to/Emacs -nw -Q -eval '(find-font (font-spec :name "Menlo-16"))'
> 
> On my system this crashes more often than not: "Fatal error 11: Segmentation faultAbort trap: 6"
> 
> Unfortunately it does not crash 100% of the time. If you don't
> experience a crash immediately, please try half a dozen or so times,
> or wait a few seconds before re-attempting.

I can only replicate this on Emacs 25, the Emacs 26 branch seems
immune.

Can you please try a nightly build?
-- 
Alan Third