GNU bug report logs - #31758
26.1; Emacs crashes trying to display CROSS MARK

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:25:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed

Merged with 30045, 30874, 31547, 31801, 31936

Found in versions 27.0.50, 25.3, 26.1

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31758: 26.1; Emacs crashes trying to display CROSS MARK
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:03:35 -0500

On Fri 08 Jun 2018 at 10:36, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From emacs -Q:
>>
>> C-x 8 RET CROSS MARK RET
>>
>> crashes Emacs every time. Emacs also crashes when trying to display
>> CROSS MARK anywhere (mu4e uses this when mu4e-use-fancy-chars is
>> non-nil).
>>
>> Let me know what other information I can provide
>>
>
> My crystal ball says that 'XFT_DEBUG=16 emacs' will say something
> about loading an emoji font just before it crashes. I think youʼre the
> third this week.
>
> Is it possible for you to try the latest version of the emacs-26
> branch? This should be fixed there.

Very nice crystal ball. The problem does indeed seem to be fixed on
emacs-26. Do you happen to know what commit(s) fix the issue? I'd like
to ask my distro to backport those commits until 26.2 gets released.

Alex
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