Subject: bug#53778: 29.0.50; Can't start Emacs because of RenderBadPicture X protocol error

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:13:24 +0800

Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> writes:

> I also got a crash after this commit, but Po Lu committed several
> subsequent patches that fixed the problem for me.  Can you update and
> see if it still crashes?

Those mostly involved inadquate programming throughout the rest of Emacs
that created pixmaps (or tooltip frames) of the wrong depth, causing
BadMatch errors.

RenderBadPicture errors point to something else sinister going on.