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#39865
28.0.50; Emacs crash
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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 #20 received at 39865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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> 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.
I think that emacs should be more robust about this and do not crash for
any bad value.
> Why are you doing this? What happens/doesn't work if you remove this
> line?
Well, I use emacs since 1992, I don't remember why I set this.
Removing this line all works like a charming.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 4:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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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