Re: Strange font / frame size problem makes emacs unusable.

[Gaute Amundsen <gaute@div.org>]

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 23:49 +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 25.04.2010 um 21:43 schrieb Gaute Amundsen:
> 
> > read(3, 0x9f10018, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
> > temporarily unavailable)
> > read(3, 0x9f10018, 4096)                = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
> > temporarily unavailable)
> 
> What is there "temporarily unavailable?" And why at all?

The socket to X it seems, yes..

> > poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3,
> > revents=POLLOUT}])
> > writev(3, [{"2\30\21\0\1\0<\0", 8},
> > {"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--161"..., 60}, {"", 0}], 3) = 68
> 
> This a rather large font: 161 points...  

It is.. and it's not one among many as I presumed.

and it's not in 
xlsfonts | grep misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--

> Since Ubuntu is Debian based  
> there are certainly some system init files. They're either missing  
> (because you did not install the packages) or they're for a different  
> version of GNU Emacs? Find and check them! 

None that I can spot.
Can you suggest a string to grep /etc/ for?

> Some trace variant is able  
> to record files being opened.

neither strace and lsof show anything resembling those names.

Gaute