problem reading ~/.emacs.desktop [was: Re: error on start-up: font not defined]

[ken <gebser@mousecar.com>]

Okay, I found a work-around for the first problem, but ran into another:

In the process of a system upgrade, I pulled in last week's
~/.emacs.desktop.  And, yes, I upgraded emacs to v.23.1.1.  Now I get
this error when emacs loads:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable Í)
  (desktop-create-buffer Í "/home/mine/file2open.html" "file2open.html"
(quote html-helper-mode) (quote (auto-fill-mode abbrev-mode)) 5535
(quote (nil nil)) nil nil (quote (...)))
  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" nil t)  ;
Reading at buffer position 1139
  load-with-code-conversion("/home/zl/.emacs.desktop"
"/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" t t)
  load("/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" t t t)
  desktop-read()
  #[nil " \x18	ƒ\x0f


Anyone know how to fix this?  If so, much appreciated.



On 09/14/2009 06:57 PM ken wrote:
> 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.
> 
>