Any insights?  Thanks,

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Basil

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 40, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2019-05-13 built on thunk
Repository revision: a1e5cce99b75c1bd50995b7b4d81423b1296fa60
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12003000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid

Configured using:
 'configure 'CC=ccache gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native' --config-cache
 --prefix=/home/blc/.local --with-mailutils --with-x-toolkit=lucid
 --with-modules --with-file-notification=yes --with-x'

Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS
GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT
LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS
LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_IE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2019-05-13 built on thunk
Repository revision: 5d7dafacf4afc888511649f6fc24c28210cd0dfc
Repository branch: harfbuzz
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12003000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid

Configured using:
 'configure 'CC=ccache gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -ggdb -gdwarf-4'
 --config-cache --prefix=/home/blc/.local --program-suffix=-harfbuzz
 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --enable-check-lisp-object-type
 --with-mailutils --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-modules
 --with-file-notification=yes --with-x'

Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS
GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ
M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES
THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP


In GNU Emacs 26.2.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2019-04-30 built on thunk
Repository revision: c26d452ae15a74f0eeec53ba529eebaa95eb5489
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12003000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid

Configured using:
 'configure 'CC=ccache gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -ggdb -gdwarf-4'
 --config-cache --prefix=/home/blc/.local --program-suffix=26
 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --enable-check-lisp-object-type
 --with-mailutils --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-modules
 --with-file-notification=yes --with-x'

Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS
GLIB NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT
ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD
LCMS2