Here are the contents of my init.el

(package-initialize)

;; Bootstrap `use-package'
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
  (package-refresh-contents)
  (package-install 'use-package))

(setq package-archives
 '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))
;; ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/")))

(require 'org)
(org-babel-tangle-file "~/.emacs.d/settings.org"
      "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")
(load "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")

(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:inherit nil :extend nil :stipple nil :background
"SystemWindow" :foreground "SystemWindowText" :inverse-video nil :box nil
:strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight
normal :height 120 :width normal :foundry "outline" :family "Courier
New")))))

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(blink-cursor-mode nil)
 '(column-number-mode t)
 '(display-time-mode t)
 '(fringe-mode '(nil . 0) nil (fringe))
 '(package-selected-packages
   '(easy-kill expand-region yasnippet-snippets vlf use-package unfill try
transpose-frame popup pkg-info persistent-scratch peep-dired ox-reveal
ox-pandoc org-pdfview magit grab-x-link goto-last-change evil dired-recent
dired-narrow dired-filter deft avy ag))
 '(search-default-mode 'char-fold-to-regexp)
 '(send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
 '(smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.mweb.net")
 '(smtpmail-smtp-service 25)
 '(tool-bar-mode nil))



On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 4:24 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Raoul Comninos <revcomninos@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 16:18:26 +0200
> > Cc: 40796@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> >  Does your init.el file include anything besides these two lines:
> >
> >    (require 'org)
> >    (org-babel-tangle-file "~/.emacs.d/settings.org"
> "~/.emacs.d/settings.el")
> >
> > Yes but I have tried removing everything.
> >
> >  Does the problem persist if you remove everything except those 2
> >  lines?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >  Does the init file get written the custom-set-faces for,m
> >  which records the font and the size you selected?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Thanks.  I'm stumped.  Does anyone else succeed in reproducing this
> strange problem?
>