default background in emacs-snapshot on ubuntu problem

[seth]

I've got a strange problem running emacs-snapshot and emacsclient that
I could use some help tracking down.  I'm running the version from
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-elisp/ubuntu.  When I run a client,
I'm not getting some face settings.

Here's a .emacs file that will cause the problem:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(custom-set-faces
 '(default ((t (:inherit nil :stipple nil :background "blue"
                         :foreground "white")))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

When I start the daemon up via:
 > emacs --deamon

and then a client via:
> emacsclient -c

I get a frame with a white background (when it should be blue).

If I start emacs up with
 > emacs --deamon --no-site-file -l ~/.emacs

and then start up a client, I get a blue frame which is what I expect
to happen.

Here's the output when running the client with the non-blue
background:

("emacs")
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.d/20gnus-init.el
(source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cedet-common.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Skipping dictionaries-common setup for emacs-snapshot
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el
(source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50eieio.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gtk-doc-tools.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mit-scheme.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51ede.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51speedbar.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/52remember-el.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/remember-el/remember-autoloads.el
(source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/52remember-el.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/52semantic.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/53cedet-contrib.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/53cogre.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/55ecb.el (source)...
"/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/cedet-common/" added to `load-
path'
Setting up cedet...done
Setting up cogre...done
Setting up ede...
Loading `eieio': old-style backquotes detected!
Setting up ede...done
Setting up eieio...done
Setting up semantic...done
Setting up speedbar...done
Setting up cedet-contrib...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/55ecb.el (source)...done
Starting Emacs daemon.
Unable to load color "unspecified-bg" [7 times]
When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0
Unable to load color "unspecified-bg" [2 times]
Mark set
byte-code: Beginning of buffer [4 times]

I found this issue:
<http://www.archivum.info/gnu.emacs.bug/2008-10/msg00171.html>
but that seemed related to viper, which I'm not running.

I haven't tried running from CVS yet but will try that later today.
I'd like to get it running properly from the repository if possible
first.

Do I have to enable/disable each package that's in site-start.el or
has anyone also experienced this and found a solution?

Thanks in advance,
Seth