From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:24:53 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Mention font-backend related crashes in PROBLEMS
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~1764
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b49d987a8cf5f5dd7ba864e20995e21765eaefcf;p=emacs.git

Mention font-backend related crashes in PROBLEMS

* etc/PROBLEMS: Mention the crash in the Cairo build when
.emacs.desktop messes with font-backend.  (Bug#36835)
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 785e6e18afa..2d56cc761ae 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ following command may do the trick.  See xrdb(1) for more information.
 
   $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
 
+** Emacs compiled with Cairo crashes when restoring session from desktop file.
+
+This can happen if the '.emacs.desktop' file contains setting for
+'font-backend' frame parameter.  A workaround is to delete the
+offending '.emacs.desktop' file, or edit it to remove the setting of
+'font-backend'.
+
 ** Emacs aborts while starting up, only when run without X.
 
 This problem often results from compiling Emacs with GCC when GCC was