It was indeed my configuration. I use a custom Inconsolata font in OTF format and I was missing libotf-dev. Thank you very much for your time, next time I should be more careful. Foivos On 09/27/14 04:14 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > I do not observe the problem on my Ubuntu 14.04 platform, after I installed the > fonts-inconsolata package. Perhaps that package, or the appropriate development > libraries are not present? You might try to install enough development > libraries to match the "Configured features" listed below: > > In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.8) > of 2014-09-26 on day > Repository revision: 117756 eggert@cs.ucla.edu-20140927010143-b1p7k30c4whq794z > Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000 > System Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS > > Configured features: > XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS > NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB > > Important settings: > value of $LC_ALL: en_US.utf8 > value of $LC_COLLATE: en_US.UTF-8 > value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8 > value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_US.UTF-8 > value of $LANG: C > value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus > locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix > > Major mode: Lisp Interaction > > Minor modes in effect: > tooltip-mode: t > electric-indent-mode: t > mouse-wheel-mode: t > tool-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 > line-number-mode: t > > Recent input: > x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g > > > Recent messages: > For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. > > Load-path shadows: > None found. > > Features: > (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec > rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse > rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 > ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip > electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd > tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment > lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select > scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham > georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao > korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic > indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple > abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files > text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule > custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process > dbusbind gfilenotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting > font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) > > Memory information: > ((conses 16 76123 3936) > (symbols 48 17961 0) > (miscs 40 38 88) > (strings 32 11216 4563) > (string-bytes 1 298914) > (vectors 16 9975) > (vector-slots 8 390555 14831) > (floats 8 72 61) > (intervals 56 185 0) > (buffers 976 11) > (heap 1024 20453 800)) -- WWW: foivos.zakkak.net PGP: 7B40 69D9 29BA AE91 C0B3 220A 0846 BFD1 03F0 4EA1