Sam Steingold skrev: > Jan Djärv wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: >>> GNU Emacs 22.0.92.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) >>> of 2007-01-08 on quant8 >>> >>> Just got this: >> ... >>> (gdb) c >>> Continuing. >>> X protocol error: BadFont (invalid Font parameter) on protocol >>> request 55 >>> >>> Dunno what this might mean, nor how to reproduce this. >>> >> >> It means that somewhere you (or someone else) gave Emacs a font name >> that does >> not exist on your system. > > a crash on invalid argument in the middle of an interactive work (as > opposed to startup) is kind of ungraceful. > I thought that if an invalid font it supplied, something else is > substituted instead (e.g., plain if no italic, or similar size if the > specific size if not found...)
It could be a bad face specification, or it could even be a bug in the X server. If an X font server is used, it is possible it did not answer (network problems?). Usually we should catch these, but if it isn't reproduceable, it is hard to debug. Jan D. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug