Re: Emacs overflowed pure space

[Stephen Berman]

On Sat, 24 May 2008 10:15:41 +0900 Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote:

> In article <address@hidden>, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> (gdb) pp Vfont_log
>> ((match "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-iso8859-1" nil) (ftfont-match 
>> "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-iso8859-1" nil) (list 
>> "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--16-*-iso8859-1" []) (ftfont-list 
>> "-*-fixed-*--*-iso8859-1" nil))
>> (gdb) c
>> Continuing.
>> Font `fontset-16' is not defined
>
> As there's no entry for (xfont-list ...), you are using only
> xft backend, and you don't have "fixed" font for
> fontconfig.  So, Emacs can't realize fontset-16.

What are "fixed" fonts?  Are you saying fontconfig cannot handle them or
that my system simply lacks them?  Or that the xft backend cannot handle
them but only the x backend?

> Please try again with x font-backend enabled.

With this emacs -q works again.  Thanks.

Steve