GNU bug report logs - #38788
27.0.50; Emacs crashes with Google Noto Emoji Color Fonts installed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Francis Meetze <francis <at> bridgesense.com>

Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 06:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 38569

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 38788 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Francis Meetze <francis <at> bridgesense.com>, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38788 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38788: 27.0.50;
 Emacs crashes with Google Noto Emoji Color Fonts installed
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:05:03 +0200

> From: Francis Meetze <francis <at> bridgesense.com>
> 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.
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