Subject: Re: 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 09:14:47 +0800

Po Lu <[email-masked]> writes:

> That backtrace unfortunately doesn't help.  Please run Emacs under GDB
> like this:
>
>  (gdb) run -q -xrm 'Emacs.synchronous: true'
>
> And show a backtrace from there instead.
>
> The output of `xdpyinfo' on your system would be helpful as well.

I'm sorry, I missed the part where you said you couldn't run GDB.

Does running Emacs like this solve the problem?

   path/to/emacs -q -xrm 'Emacs.visualClass: TrueColor-24'

Thanks.