Re: Emacs 23.1.90 pretest

[Steven Knight <steven.knight@unh.edu>]

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On Fri Dec 11 2009 02:47:26 GMT-0500 (EST), Jan D. wrote:
> On 2009-12-09 22:20, Steven Knight wrote:
>> On Wed Dec 09 2009 15:44:06 GMT-0500 (EST), Jan Djärv wrote:
>>> First we need to find out what font you are trying to use. Can you
>>> start 23.1 that works and in *scratch* evaluate
>>>
>>> (frame-parameter nil 'font)
>>>
>>> and see what it returns?
>>>
>>> Jan D.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You bet. I started emacs (using emacs -Q) and evaluated the above code.
>> Here is the result:
>>
>> -unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>>
>
> Hmm.  I think you must debug this, I'm trying to figure out where.
> Does starting with -fn Monospace-12 work?
$ emacs -Q -fn Monospace-12
Arithmetic error
>
> Can you start gdb on emacs and set a breakpoint in 
> x_default_font_parameter?  A session would look something like:
> (gdb) b x_default_font_parameter
> (gdb) r -Q
> break in x_default_font_parameter
>
> And then type n to step through and print out variables as they are 
> assigned:
> (gdb) p font
> (gdb) pr
>
> and
> (gdb) p system_font
>
I will do this and let you know.

I've attached a copy of my config.log file (bzipped).  I am running 
emacs-23.1.90 on a Fedora 11 system under KDE 4.3.3.

Thanks for all the help,

-- 
Steven Knight
steven.knight@unh.edu


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