From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: 23.0.60; peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87iqzjps95.fsf@lukas.physics.niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205885944 13946 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2008 00:19:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: "Roland Winkler" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 01:19:33 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jbm1k-00084k-KM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbm1A-0007Vj-FA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbm16-0007V0-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbm15-0007TW-6J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jbm15-0007TD-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jbm15-0006DR-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Jbm14-0007Nb-Gb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jbm11-0006C7-SD for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jbm11-0006Bt-E2 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:47 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEANP430dMCrTo/2dsb2JhbACpRIEJ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,521,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="16214236" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 18 Mar 2008 20:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([76.10.180.232]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id ZDL01046; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:46 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C0CBE80C0; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87iqzjps95.fsf@lukas.physics.niu.edu> (Roland Winkler's message of "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:44:06 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92947 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21620 Archived-At: > Today I downloaded emacs from the CVS tree. It seems to run fine > with the -nw option. Otherwise, it dies on startup with the error > message > peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859) > Let me know if there is extra info that might help you. Google will give you the appended answer (among other similar ones). Stefan Reiner Steib writes: > When starting Emacs with X11 (fetched a 1-2 hours ago, i.e. after > the unicode merge), I get the error: > > | peculiar error: "invalid font property", (:spacing . iso8859) There is a missing comma between font specs in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs: --- /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs.~1~ +++ /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Emacs*Fontset-5:\ latin-iso8859-4:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-4,\ cyrillic-iso8859-5:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-5,\ greek-iso8859-7:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-7,\ - latin-iso8859-15:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-15 \ + latin-iso8859-15:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-15,\ hebrew-iso8859-8:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-8,\ latin-iso8859-9:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-iso8859-9,\ katakana-jisx0201:-*-fixed-medium-r-*--12-*-jisx0201.1976-0,\ Andreas.