From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: error on start-up: font not defined Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:57:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAECA72.4050103@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252969112 27149 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2009 22:58:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:58:32 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 00:58:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MnKV6-0006h4-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:58:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnKV6-0003hq-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:58:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnKUk-0003hf-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnKUi-0003hB-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48964 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnKUi-0003h8-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:59316) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnKUi-0003KJ-37 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1MnKUe0BU5-000duM; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:57:58 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18CW8S4g9llJs0vxQfY3QgIPJd/tnF3+mivDXq zLb8SdF8YXgpYnASPn3EsIA1fLdHTjjHCTfXhxFDOa37e5bax6 aKABUeKHVdM+K/tjR7Uf6f7eElHPuvQ X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68147 Archived-At: Just compiled emacs v.23.1.1 and, testing, ran src/emacs -q Got the following error: Font `---regular-R-Normal--15------ISO8859-1' is not defined However, if I do src/emacs -q -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-90-iso8859-1' and minor variants in the font specification, emacs loads okay. What's the problem...? Anybody know? # uname -srvmpio Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:44:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Thanks. -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake