GNU bug report logs - #43177
Bug: Emacs 27.1 hangs forever in `FcCharSetSubtractCount' from '/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alexander Shukaev <emacs <at> Alexander.Shukaev.name>

Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 07:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #98 received at 43177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alexander Shukaev <emacs <at> Alexander.Shukaev.name>
Cc: 43177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: bug#43177: Bug: Emacs 27.1 hangs forever in
 `FcCharSetSubtractCount' from '/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1'
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:54:14 +0300

> From: Alexander Shukaev <emacs <at> Alexander.Shukaev.name>
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 21:47:41 +0200
> Cc: 43177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> So the solution is easy: just deprecate and remove the 'x' backend :-)
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> > 
> > Love that tip, man!  Confirming the speed up.  Thanks a lot!
> 
> For future visitors and for completeness sake, my per-frame font setup 
> function now looks like this:

For those same future visitors, a word of warning: removing the x font
backend will make some (rarely used) fonts unavailable to Emacs.
Caveat emptor!
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