GNU bug report logs - #28498
25.2; Crash calling `find-font' on text-only terminals on macOS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Duncan Harvey <djh-emacs-bugs <at> syndrig.co.uk>

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Duncan Harvey <djh-emacs-bugs <at> syndrig.co.uk>
Cc: 28498 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28498: 25.2; Crash calling `find-font' on text-only terminals on macOS
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
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