Hi Michael, thanks for the message! I don't know why I never saw the response of Eli (never filed a bug report before, probably should subscribe to the mailing list...). *Currently everything is working* :) I'm on Manjaro and assuming the font-hypothesis is true, an update must have fixed it. I tried a quick web-search but could not find anything on that. I didn't change the font either. Best, Max On 13.04.20 10:48, Michael Albinus wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Hi Maximilian, > >>> Whenever I try to describe-variable tramp-password-prompt-regexp, Emacs >>> crashes (even with -q). >> I suspect this crash is related to fonts installed on your system. >> (It doesn't crash on my system, FWIW.) The documentation of this >> variable includes a few non-ASCII strings, and I'm guessing Emacs >> crashes trying to display one of them. >> >> Unfortunately, your Emacs binary seems to be stripped, so the >> backtrace is not useful, and I have no way of confirming my guess. > Could you pls check as Eli has suggested? Otherwise, I don't know how to > continue. > > Best regards, Michael.