Subject: bug#38788: 27.0.50; Emacs crashes with Google Noto Emoji Color Fonts installed

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:05:03 +0200

> From: Francis Meetze <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:20:33 -0800
> 
> To reproduce install the Google Noto Emoji Color font library.
> 
> dnf install google-noto-emoji-color-fonts
> 
> apt-get install fonts-noto-color-emoji
> 
> Including a certain symbol from the Google Noto Emoji color font library will crash Emacs with "Fatal error 6: Aborted".
> 
> see reference: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1076735/emacs-crashes-on-pasting-the-unicode-symbol
> 
> I was just checking my email in Gnus when this symbol crashed Emacs in X11.  I didn't have any issues in terminal mode as the symbol didn't try to render.
> 
> Uninstalling the font library prevents the error.

Sounds like another duplicate of bug#38569 and its ilk.

We have a patch in the works, so hopefully Emacs 27 will avoid bumping
into this XFT problem.