Re: Abort when no X font resources are set.

[Jan D.]

Aidan Kehoe wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Under X11, I want to check out how GNU Emacs appears when I don't have any
> resources set for it. So I type
>
>  % xrdb < /dev/null
>
> in a shell. I try to start the program, and I get 
>
>  % emacs           
>  Fatal error (6)zsh: abort (core dumped)  emacs
>
> It looks like the assert on line 6793 of xfaces.c is being triggered--some
> defaults are probably needed there. Here's the C backtrace, and the rest of
> the report-emacs-bug information is below it;
>  

I can't reproduce it.  Does it happen when you run emacs -q or emacs -Q?

   Jan D.