At startup no fonts are found

[Peter Dyballa]

Launching Carbon Emacs 23.0.0 works quite well until this point:

        Desktop: 22 buffers restored.
        For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
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        Entering debugger...
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*Backtrace* contains:

	Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (0 .  
9749083))
	  string-match("^-\\([^-]*-[^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\ 
\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-] 
*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*-[^-]*\\)$" (0 . 9749083))
          x-decompose-font-name((0 . 9749083))
          (aref (x-decompose-font-name asc) xlfd-regexp-pixelsize-subnum)
	  (let* ((alst ...) (rescale-alist ...) (init-font ...) (frm- 
font ...) (def-font ...) (fontset ...) (asc ...) (size ...)) (dolist  
(elt fixed-width-get-scale-alist) (let* ... ...)) (setq face-font- 
rescale-alist rescale-alist))
          fixed-width-append-factor(nil t)
          (lambda nil (fixed-width-append-factor nil t))()
          run-hooks(emacs-startup-hook)


In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0)
of 2006-05-03 on localhost
X server distributor `Apple Computers', version 10.4.7
configured using `configure '--without-x' '--without-toolkit-scroll- 
bars' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/lib/pango-ft219/include - 
I/sw/include/pango-1.0 -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/include'  
'LDFLAGS=-dead_strip -L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib/ 
freetype219/lib -L/sw/lib/pango-ft219/lib -L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

--
Greetings

  Pete

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this  
matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and  
pencil surpass him in intelligence.
                                           Ernst Mach