bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon

bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon

[Joshua Redstone]

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Hi,I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
incident on my linux box 2.6.20.
In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
:inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
:slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works fine,
and the default face has reasonable values:
-----------

        Family: Luxi Mono
       Foundry: b&h
         Width: normal
        Height: 141
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: white
    Background: black
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
           Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
       Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
       Inherit: unspecified

------------------
However, when I start emacs by first doing 'emacs --daemon', and then
'emacsclient -c', I get errors:
Unable to load color "unspecified-bg"
And the colors are not set correctly.  Poking around, I found that the
default face in this instance has:
---------------------------
        Family: Luxi Mono
       Foundry: b&h
         Width: normal
        Height: 119
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: black
    Background: unspecified-bg
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
           Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
       Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
       Inherit: unspecified
--------------------------
Further, when I use C-x,C-e to manually evaluate the custom-set-faces line
in my .emacs I get the following stack trace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Undefined color" "unspecified-fg")
  internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(default :foreground "unspecified-fg"
#<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180>)
  set-face-attribute(default #<frame
emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> :stipple nil :background
"unspecified-bg" :foreground
"unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
:foundry "default" :family "default")
  apply(set-face-attribute default #<frame
emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> (:stipple nil :background
"unspecified-bg" :foreground
"unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
:foundry "default" :family "default"))
  face-spec-set-2(default #<frame
emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> ((t :stipple nil
:background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
"unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
:foundry "default" :family "default")))
  face-spec-recalc(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180>)
  face-spec-set(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground
"white" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
:underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))) t)
  custom-theme-set-faces(user (default ((t ...))))
  apply(custom-theme-set-faces user (default ((t ...))))
  custom-set-faces((default ((t ...))))
  eval((custom-set-faces (quote (default ...))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)

One more detail:  I'm (ssh -X)'ing into the linux box from a Snow Leopard
Mac running X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple45))

Anyone else seeing this behavior or know what to do about it?
Thanks,
Josh

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bug#4777: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon

[Joshua Redstone]

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One other note I forgot to mention.  After I manually eval the
custom-set-faces function and get the lisp error, if I try to evaluate it
again,
it succeeds without error.
Josh

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
> incident on my linux box 2.6.20.
> In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
> (custom-set-faces
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
> :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
> :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
> When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works fine,
> and the default face has reasonable values:
> -----------
>
>         Family: Luxi Mono
>        Foundry: b&h
>          Width: normal
>         Height: 141
>         Weight: normal
>          Slant: normal
>     Foreground: white
>     Background: black
>      Underline: nil
>       Overline: nil
> Strike-through: nil
>            Box: nil
>        Inverse: nil
>        Stipple: nil
>           Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
>        Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
>        Inherit: unspecified
>
> ------------------
> However, when I start emacs by first doing 'emacs --daemon', and then
> 'emacsclient -c', I get errors:
> Unable to load color "unspecified-bg"
> And the colors are not set correctly.  Poking around, I found that the
> default face in this instance has:
> ---------------------------
>         Family: Luxi Mono
>        Foundry: b&h
>          Width: normal
>         Height: 119
>         Weight: normal
>          Slant: normal
>     Foreground: black
>     Background: unspecified-bg
>      Underline: nil
>       Overline: nil
> Strike-through: nil
>            Box: nil
>        Inverse: nil
>        Stipple: nil
>           Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
>        Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
>        Inherit: unspecified
> --------------------------
> Further, when I use C-x,C-e to manually evaluate the custom-set-faces line
> in my .emacs I get the following stack trace:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Undefined color" "unspecified-fg")
>   internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(default :foreground "unspecified-fg"
> #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180>)
>   set-face-attribute(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> :stipple nil :background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
> "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
> nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
> :foundry "default" :family "default")
>   apply(set-face-attribute default #<frame
> emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180> (:stipple nil :background
> "unspecified-bg" :foreground "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil
> :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight
> normal :height 1 :width normal :foundry "default" :family "default"))
>   face-spec-set-2(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> ((t :stipple nil :background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
> "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
> nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
> :foundry "default" :family "default")))
>   face-spec-recalc(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180>)
>   face-spec-set(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground
> "white" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
> :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))) t)
>   custom-theme-set-faces(user (default ((t ...))))
>   apply(custom-theme-set-faces user (default ((t ...))))
>   custom-set-faces((default ((t ...))))
>   eval((custom-set-faces (quote (default ...))))
>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>
> One more detail:  I'm (ssh -X)'ing into the linux box from a Snow Leopard
> Mac running X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple45))
>
> Anyone else seeing this behavior or know what to do about it?
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>

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bug#4776: Acknowledgement (Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon)

[Joshua Redstone]

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One other note I forgot to mention. After I manually eval the
custom-set-faces function and get the lisp error, if I try to evaluate it
again,
it succeeds without error.
Josh


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bug#4777: Acknowledgement (Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon)

[Joshua Redstone]

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Please kill this bug - I accidentally opened a new bug rather than appending
to bug 4776, which was my original intention.
Josh

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bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com> writes:

  > Hi,
  > I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without incident
  > on my linux box 2.6.20.
  > In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
  > (custom-set-faces
  >   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  >   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  >   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  >   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  >  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
  > :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
  > :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
  > When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works fine, and
  > the default face has reasonable values:
  > -----------

This sounds a lot like bug#1078
could you try with emacs from CVS and see if you get the problem there too?

bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon

[Joshua Redstone]

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I just checked out the current repository, compiled, and this problem
doesn't exist for me anymore.
Looks like it was fixed.
Thanks,
Josh

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

> Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Hi,
>  > I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
> incident
>  > on my linux box 2.6.20.
>  > In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
>  > (custom-set-faces
>  >   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>  >   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  >   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  >   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  >  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
>  > :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline
> nil
>  > :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
>  > When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works
> fine, and
>  > the default face has reasonable values:
>  > -----------
>
> This sounds a lot like bug#1078
> could you try with emacs from CVS and see if you get the problem there too?
>

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bug#4777: marked as done (Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon)

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One other note I forgot to mention.  After I manually eval the
custom-set-faces function and get the lisp error, if I try to evaluate it
again,
it succeeds without error.
Josh

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
> incident on my linux box 2.6.20.
> In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
> (custom-set-faces
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
> :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
> :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
> When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works fine,
> and the default face has reasonable values:
> -----------
>
>         Family: Luxi Mono
>        Foundry: b&h
>          Width: normal
>         Height: 141
>         Weight: normal
>          Slant: normal
>     Foreground: white
>     Background: black
>      Underline: nil
>       Overline: nil
> Strike-through: nil
>            Box: nil
>        Inverse: nil
>        Stipple: nil
>           Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
>        Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
>        Inherit: unspecified
>
> ------------------
> However, when I start emacs by first doing 'emacs --daemon', and then
> 'emacsclient -c', I get errors:
> Unable to load color "unspecified-bg"
> And the colors are not set correctly.  Poking around, I found that the
> default face in this instance has:
> ---------------------------
>         Family: Luxi Mono
>        Foundry: b&h
>          Width: normal
>         Height: 119
>         Weight: normal
>          Slant: normal
>     Foreground: black
>     Background: unspecified-bg
>      Underline: nil
>       Overline: nil
> Strike-through: nil
>            Box: nil
>        Inverse: nil
>        Stipple: nil
>           Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
>        Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
>        Inherit: unspecified
> --------------------------
> Further, when I use C-x,C-e to manually evaluate the custom-set-faces line
> in my .emacs I get the following stack trace:
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Undefined color" "unspecified-fg")
>   internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(default :foreground "unspecified-fg"
> #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180>)
>   set-face-attribute(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> :stipple nil :background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
> "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
> nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
> :foundry "default" :family "default")
>   apply(set-face-attribute default #<frame
> emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180> (:stipple nil :background
> "unspecified-bg" :foreground "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil
> :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight
> normal :height 1 :width normal :foundry "default" :family "default"))
>   face-spec-set-2(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> ((t :stipple nil :background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
> "unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
> nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
> :foundry "default" :family "default")))
>   face-spec-recalc(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180>)
>   face-spec-set(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground
> "white" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
> :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))) t)
>   custom-theme-set-faces(user (default ((t ...))))
>   apply(custom-theme-set-faces user (default ((t ...))))
>   custom-set-faces((default ((t ...))))
>   eval((custom-set-faces (quote (default ...))))
>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>
> One more detail:  I'm (ssh -X)'ing into the linux box from a Snow Leopard
> Mac running X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple45))
>
> Anyone else seeing this behavior or know what to do about it?
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com>
Cc: 4776-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:46:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200911040146.nA41kbnT027147@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>

Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com> writes:

  > I just checked out the current repository, compiled, and this problem doesn't
  > exist for me anymore.
  > Looks like it was fixed.

Thanks, closing them bug then.

  > Thanks,
  > Josh
  > 
  > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
  > 
  >     Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com> writes:
  > 
  >      > Hi,
  >      > I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
  >     incident
  >      > on my linux box 2.6.20.
  >      > In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
  >      > (custom-set-faces
  >      >   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  >      >   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  >      >   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  >      >   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  >      >  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
  >      > :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline
  >     nil
  >      > :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
  >      > When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works
  >     fine, and
  >      > the default face has reasonable values:
  >      > -----------
  > 
  >     This sounds a lot like bug#1078
  >     could you try with emacs from CVS and see if you get the problem there too?

bug#4776: marked as done (Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon)

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and subject line Re: bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
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regarding Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when  starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
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Hi,I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
incident on my linux box 2.6.20.
In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
:inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
:slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works fine,
and the default face has reasonable values:
-----------

        Family: Luxi Mono
       Foundry: b&h
         Width: normal
        Height: 141
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: white
    Background: black
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
           Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
       Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
       Inherit: unspecified

------------------
However, when I start emacs by first doing 'emacs --daemon', and then
'emacsclient -c', I get errors:
Unable to load color "unspecified-bg"
And the colors are not set correctly.  Poking around, I found that the
default face in this instance has:
---------------------------
        Family: Luxi Mono
       Foundry: b&h
         Width: normal
        Height: 119
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: black
    Background: unspecified-bg
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
           Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: #<font-object -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1>
       Fontset: -b&h-Luxi
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-startup
       Inherit: unspecified
--------------------------
Further, when I use C-x,C-e to manually evaluate the custom-set-faces line
in my .emacs I get the following stack trace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Undefined color" "unspecified-fg")
  internal-set-lisp-face-attribute(default :foreground "unspecified-fg"
#<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com 0x135f180>)
  set-face-attribute(default #<frame
emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> :stipple nil :background
"unspecified-bg" :foreground
"unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
:foundry "default" :family "default")
  apply(set-face-attribute default #<frame
emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> (:stipple nil :background
"unspecified-bg" :foreground
"unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
:foundry "default" :family "default"))
  face-spec-set-2(default #<frame
emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180> ((t :stipple nil
:background "unspecified-bg" :foreground
"unspecified-fg" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 1 :width normal
:foundry "default" :family "default")))
  face-spec-recalc(default #<frame emacs@devrs005.snc1.facebook.com0x135f180>)
  face-spec-set(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground
"white" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
:underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))) t)
  custom-theme-set-faces(user (default ((t ...))))
  apply(custom-theme-set-faces user (default ((t ...))))
  custom-set-faces((default ((t ...))))
  eval((custom-set-faces (quote (default ...))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)

One more detail:  I'm (ssh -X)'ing into the linux box from a Snow Leopard
Mac running X11 (XQuartz 2.3.4 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple45))

Anyone else seeing this behavior or know what to do about it?
Thanks,
Josh

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com>
Cc: 4776-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: bug#4776: Error setting default face and unspecified-bg in default face when starting emacs 23.1 with --daemon
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:46:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <200911040146.nA41kbnT027147@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>

Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com> writes:

  > I just checked out the current repository, compiled, and this problem doesn't
  > exist for me anymore.
  > Looks like it was fixed.

Thanks, closing them bug then.

  > Thanks,
  > Josh
  > 
  > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
  > 
  >     Joshua Redstone <redstone@gmail.com> writes:
  > 
  >      > Hi,
  >      > I downloaded emacs 23.1 and built it with './configure ; make' without
  >     incident
  >      > on my linux box 2.6.20.
  >      > In my .emacs I have the following specifying the default face:
  >      > (custom-set-faces
  >      >   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  >      >   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  >      >   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  >      >   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  >      >  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white"
  >      > :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline
  >     nil
  >      > :slant normal :weight normal :height 140 :width normal))))
  >      > When I start emacs without --daemon, it starts without errors, works
  >     fine, and
  >      > the default face has reasonable values:
  >      > -----------
  > 
  >     This sounds a lot like bug#1078
  >     could you try with emacs from CVS and see if you get the problem there too?