GNU bug report logs - #4776
Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joshua Redstone <redstone <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:15:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Joshua Redstone <redstone <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:28:44 -0700 (PDT)

Joshua Redstone <redstone <at> gmail.com> writes:

  > Hi,
  > I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without incident
  > on my linux box 2.6.20.
  > In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
  > (custom-set-faces
  >   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  >   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  >   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  >   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  >  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
  > :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
  > :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
  > When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works fine, and
  > the default face has reasonable values:
  > -----------

This sounds a lot like bug#1078
could you try with emacs from CVS and see if you get the problem there too?
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