----- Open the attached file with a GUI frame. The Emacs process immediately crashes with X protocol error: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) on protocol request 138 This happens to be a development version, but I was initially made aware of this by a friend (CC'd) who uses his distro's stock Emacs package, so this has been an issue for some time. This probably isn't a duplicate of 37895 / 37786 , as the fix listed as committed - "Fixed by adding "Noto Color Emoji" to face-ignored-fonts instead" - is definitely applied here (I can see it in the list when I do "C-h v face-ignored-fonts RET"), so there's something else at play in this situation. I tried to run Emacs in GDB, but I couldn't get 'bt full' or 'xbacktrace' to spit out anything that looked remotely useful. I've probably just managed to mess it up. If it's needed, I'll try again for more useful output. ----- In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2019-12-11 built on SoraLaptop Repository revision: bad2532f664e11e5b32c1194f2274ba2d1f0116b Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.12006000 System Description: Fedora 31 (Workstation Edition) Recent messages: Loading gnus...done Loading paren...done Loading /home/Sora/.emacs.d/customize.el (source)...done Packages that are not available: 3 (the rest is already installed), maybe you need to ‘M-x package-refresh-contents’ Loading /home/Sora/quicklisp/slime-helper.el (source)...done Starting Emacs daemon. Package cl is deprecated Package tls is deprecated When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0 Making completion list... Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/home/Sora/local --with-dbus --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=athena --with-gpm=no --with-modules --with-gnutls --with-gconf --with-imagemagick --with-rsvg --with-libotf --with-m17n_flt build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig' Configured features: XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: global-auto-complete-mode: t auto-complete-mode: t paredit-mode: t whitespace-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t display-battery-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t tab-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t size-indication-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: /home/Sora/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/misc hides /home/Sora/.emacs.d/local-lisp/misc Features: (shadow sort mail-extr gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu mml2015 mm-view mml-smime smime dig emacsbug sendmail server slime-fancy slime-trace-dialog slime-fontifying-fu slime-package-fu slime-references slime-compiler-notes-tree slime-scratch 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backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 331138 15778) (symbols 48 31534 1) (strings 32 100724 3715) (string-bytes 1 3418300) (vectors 16 41168) (vector-slots 8 488792 24278) (floats 8 317 26) (intervals 56 470 0) (buffers 1000 15)) Thanks, -- ~Robert Cochran