GNU bug report logs - #39865
28.0.50; Emacs crash

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 01:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 23386, 35803, 36835

Found in versions 25.0.95, 28.0.50, 24.1, 25.0.50, 24.5, 26.2, 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 #17 received at 39865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39865: 28.0.50; Emacs crash
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:18:31 +0200

> From: Vinicius José Latorre <viniciusjl <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:21:22 -0300
> Cc: 39865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I found this line in my ~/.emacs that causes the crash:
> 
> (push '(font-backend xft x) default-frame-alist)

OK, then the crash is a known problem: you cannot change the font
backend once the session started, you can only do that in X resources.
Previously, XFT was your original backend, but now it's HarfBuzz.

Why are you doing this?  What happens/doesn't work if you remove this
line?
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