From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to track down "invalid face attribute" errors? Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:06:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83sfkfl9qv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k05rr79k.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <831qrzmu2k.fsf@gnu.org> <877d1rqwkv.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 25 18:07:27 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ocUAA-0003cU-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:07:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54788 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocUA9-0004qM-CG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocU8z-0004n0-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocU8z-0004LT-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:06:13 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=R/q9Ol8lPa3jFV8+JlE8n+1EwYE1rnfPLcaTyzw5sNE=; b=O316xdCnHk5F wj/Kbv2UF4YWtXZTSnmwRO9lE725M6vkl2wxQsYuRxv8x0cayYbhBCn3HfDGemhdb+BLuSq6Jgpgl doxAsiKL/ThU8/6rXtd5VlKhtv3XqpqWP9d7klZihumonhhHfRqg0ZP+y3ZdxirSb0uLJjo5TBITg +Y0OY/PhvVHwy8dPRVU224IPOAkA3hcmVSr/T6LfytRhRwwphL4Mlu14PaLrXep0+FaFU2ThFxR5Y JcpknmN9TIWAdE5aYi0k1Q4QLlhlB04Qatd9697xu+7l5Ff4kOQDO4uL29rzu68u6z69hE4pWeiMc v09/Eab5SXdAdLeVBy400A==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4372 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ocU8x-0005pY-Qi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:06:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877d1rqwkv.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (message from Eric S Fraga on Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:53:52 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139630 Archived-At: > From: Eric S Fraga > Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:53:52 +0100 > > On Sunday, 25 Sep 2022 at 17:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Can you run Emacs under GDB? If so, put a breakpoint on the line in > > xfaces.c which emits this message, and use the backtrace to find out > > which face causes it. > > Currently playing around by disabling packages to try to track this down > but I will try this if all else fails. It's been years (decades?) since > I last used gdb... If you have many dozens of packages to try disabling, it might be faster to ask for instructions for running under GDB, because that will give you an instant and accurate answer. Your call.