Re: Emacs 23.1.90 pretest

[Jan D.]

On 2009-12-09 22:20, Steven Knight wrote:
> On Wed Dec 09 2009 15:44:06 GMT-0500 (EST), Jan Djärv wrote:
> > First we need to find out what font you are trying to use. Can you
> > start 23.1 that works and in *scratch* evaluate
> >
> > (frame-parameter nil 'font)
> >
> > and see what it returns?
> >
> > Jan D.
>
> Hi,
>
> You bet. I started emacs (using emacs -Q) and evaluated the above code.
> Here is the result:
>
> -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1

Hmm.  I think you must debug this, I'm trying to figure out where.
Does starting with -fn Monospace-12 work?

Can you start gdb on emacs and set a breakpoint in 
x_default_font_parameter?  A session would look something like:
(gdb) b x_default_font_parameter
(gdb) r -Q
break in x_default_font_parameter

And then type n to step through and print out variables as they are 
assigned:
(gdb) p font
(gdb) pr

and
(gdb) p system_font

I hope we find something here.

        Jan D.