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

[Gaute Amundsen <gaute@div.org>]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:46 +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 26.04.2010 um 11:58 schrieb Gaute Amundsen:
> 
> >>> xlsfonts | grep misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--
<snip>
> 
> >
> >>>
> >>>> 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?
> >>
> >> No, I am not using a Debian based Linux. Other suggestions:  
> >> locate .el
> >> | egrep '^/etc',
> >
> > Only hits are /etc/emacs/site-start* and
> > /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
> >
> > piping into "xargs -n 1 grep -i font" gives no hits.
> 
> Of course! An ELC file is a compiled Emacs Lisp/ELisp or EL file. Get  
> the uncompiled version! In a GPL'ed OS it has to exist. Could be /etc/ 
> emacs23/site-start.d has the EL files as well... (GNU Emacs prefers to  
> load the byte-compiled variants: they're faster to load.)

Yes, that's in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ 
None of those are elc.
Only mentioned the elc for completeness.

Tried greping for a number of terms related to fonts, devices X, and so
on. no hits.
None of the names suggest anything related to fonts or X either :(

but just moving the whole dir out of the way, does actually make a
difference. Now I get screenshot 3 straight away. :-/

> >
> >> launch GNU Emacs as
> >>
> >> 	emacs [...] -eval '(defadvice load (before debug-log activate)
> >> (message "(Tipp von Kai G) Lade jetzt: %s" (ad-get-arg 0)))'
> >
> > Should the message show up in *Messages* ? Nothing there.
> 
> Yes. You should see a few lines..., but, yes, some Emacsen (I tried  
> "Carbon Emacs" in Mac OS X) hide loading these "init" files.
> 
> > Tried emacs --debug-init as well with no obvious sign of anything
> > happening.
> 
> Starts "debugging" (with a 'Backtrace* buffer) *after* an error has  
> happened.
And as there are no error as such, no trace.

Gaute