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Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
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#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
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Joshua Redstone <redstone <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I just checked out the current repository, compiled, and this problem doesn't
> exist for me anymore.
> Looks like it was fixed.
Thanks, closing them bug then.
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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One other note I forgot to mention. After I manually eval the
custom-set-faces function and get the lisp error, if I try to evaluate it
again,
it succeeds without error.
Josh
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joshua Redstone <redstone <at> gmail.com>wrote:
> 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:
> -----------
>
> Family: Luxi Mono
> Foundry: b&h
> Width: normal
> Height: 141
> Weight: normal
> Slant: normal
> Foreground: white
> Background: black
> Underline: nil
> Overline: nil
> Strike-through: nil
> Box: nil
> Inverse: nil
> Stipple: nil
> Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
> Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
> Inherit: unspecified
>
> ------------------
> However, when I start emacs by first doing 'emacs --daemon', and then
> 'emacsclient -c', I get errors:
> Unable to load color "unspecified-bg"
> And the colors are not set correctly. Poking around, I found that the
> default face in this instance has:
> ---------------------------
> Family: Luxi Mono
> Foundry: b&h
> Width: normal
> Height: 119
> Weight: normal
> Slant: normal
> Foreground: black
> Background: unspecified-bg
> Underline: nil
> Overline: nil
> Strike-through: nil
> Box: nil
> Inverse: nil
> Stipple: nil
> Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
> Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
> Inherit: unspecified
> --------------------------
> Further, when I use C-x,C-e to manually evaluate the custom-set-faces line
> in my .emacs I get the following stack trace:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Undefined color" "unspecified-fg")
> internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(default :foreground "unspecified-fg"
> #<frame emacs <at> devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180>)
> set-face-attribute(default #<frame emacs <at> devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> :stipple nil :background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
> "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
> nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
> :foundry "default" :family "default")
> apply(set-face-attribute default #<frame
> emacs <at> devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180> (:stipple nil :background
> "unspecified-bg" :foreground "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil
> :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight
> normal :height 1 :width normal :foundry "default" :family "default"))
> face-spec-set-2(default #<frame emacs <at> devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> ((t :stipple nil :background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
> "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
> nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
> :foundry "default" :family "default")))
> face-spec-recalc(default #<frame emacs <at> devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180>)
> face-spec-set(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))) t)
> custom-theme-set-faces(user (default ((t ...))))
> apply(custom-theme-set-faces user (default ((t ...))))
> custom-set-faces((default ((t ...))))
> eval((custom-set-faces (quote (default ...))))
> eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
> eval-last-sexp(nil)
> call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>
> One more detail: I'm (ssh -X)'ing into the linux box from a Snow Leopard
> Mac running X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple45))
>
> Anyone else seeing this behavior or know what to do about it?
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
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