Very astute!!! Found this in my init.el (set-face-attribute 'font-lock-string-face nil :foreground "black") Thanks. On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:56 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > RDS writes: > > > 1) Using standard agetty, not emacs terminal. > > > > 2) M-x list-faces-display (after fault) > > All OK except > > font-lock-string-face (black-on-black) > > sh-escaped-newline " > > toolbar " > > window-divider-last-pixel " > > Hm... you don't happen to have any packages installed that alters these > faces, by any chance? (Grep your .el files for `font-lock-string-face', > for instance.) > > -- > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no >