Do you still get crashes if you use the font ...*iso10646-1 instead of
...*iso8859-1 from the start?
Yes, even with a size of 18, which I did not expect.
That is in
Today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Fri, 2007 Nov 23 11:14 UTC
GNU Emacs 23.0.50.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.1)
started in debugger with
set args -i -q \
--eval '(emacs-version t)' -bg DodgerBlue4 -fg white \
-fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1' \
-geometry 80x44+545+43 -name '-q GNU Emacs in Debugger, font: fixed 18'
with the breakpoint at xterm.c:1374
and after I evaluated (x-synchronize t) in the debuggee
(I could not even visit my test file with a size of 20,
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb7483c26 in kill () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0x080f906b in abort () at emacs.c:431