Re: colours lost

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Madhu <enometh@net.meer>
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:40:58 +0530
> 
> I'm running an X toolkit build (master from around november) and very
> recently I am losing all colours both under X and tty. Typically I start
> emacs via --daemon and attach to it via both X and tty.
> 
> What I mean is eg. M-x list-colors-display shows a buffer in which all
> the the lines are displayed with foreground colour set to the default
> foreground, background colour to the default background, and font set to
> the default-font.  Same with happens M-x list-faces-display.  colours
> set via font-lock still work.  Emacs starts off ok but somewhere this
> gets triggered and I can't think of what I've been doing recently that
> causes this.  Where do I start looking for the code which handles this?

Does "M-x list-faces-display" also show all the faces the same, both
colors and fonts?  If so, it sounds like something is redefining all
the faces, and you should look at your customizations related to
faces.

Thinking a bit more about this: if all the colors are suddenly lost,
you should see it happening immediately, and so the last thing you did
is a good starting point for looking for the culprit.