bug#2147: marked as done (Crash when adding (font . nil) to `default-frame-alist')

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has caused the Emacs bug report #2147,
regarding Crash when adding (font . nil) to `default-frame-alist'
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> Default font in Emacs
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> Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:06:35 +0800
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> Package: Emacs
> Version: 23.0.90.1
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> Because I prefer the FreeMono font to the default font provided, I
> tweak it in my ~/.emacs like this:
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>   (let ((font (cond ((eq window-system 'w32)
>                       "-outline-courier 
> new-normal-r-normal-normal-16-120-96-96-c-*-fontset-auto2"
>                      )
>                      ((eq window-system 'x)
>                       "FreeMono-13"
>                      ))))
>     (set-default-font font)
>     (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,font)))
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> When I start emacs as a daemon:
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>   $ emacs --daemon
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> The cons cell added to `default-frame-alist' seems to be '(font
> . nil). This causes a segfault when running `emacsclient -c':
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>   Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>   [Switching to Thread 0xb700f700 (LWP 28215)]
>   0x0806f438 in estimate_mode_line_height (f=0xa832b38, 
> face_id=MODE_LINE_INACTIVE_FACE_ID) at xdisp.c:1646
>   1646 int height = FONT_HEIGHT (FRAME_FONT (f));
>   (gdb) p FRAME_FONT (f)
>   $1 = (struct font *) 0x0
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> Re: bug#2147: Default font in Emacs
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> Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:32:32 -0500
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> > Hehe, when I combined the code in my config file that is currently not
> > suitable to use with terminal and the daemon usage, my intention was
> > really not to tell Emacs to crash  :)
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> Duh!  I somehow completely overlooked the fact that you got a seg-fault.
> Of course, that needs to be fixed.  Thanks for insisting,
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>         Stefan
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