From e9a52cfeb5a68beb88e1a9530213dcd4e2f1ed74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:21:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index df8592ca5a4..5c8c8fbfdd7 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -893,6 +893,26 @@ functions, one each for every macro. Here's an example: Then replace all references to UPDATE_SYNTAX_TABLE_FORWARD in syntax.c with a call to the function update_syntax_table_forward. +* Emacs fails to start, complaining about missing fonts. + +A typical error message might be something like + + No fonts match `-*-fixed-medium-r-*--6-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' + +This happens because some X resource specifies a bad font family for +Emacs to use. The possible places where this specification might be +are: + + - in your ~/.Xdefaults file + + - client-side X resource file, such as ~/Emacs or + /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Emacs or + /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Emacs + +One of these files might have bad or malformed specification of a +fontset that Emacs should use. To fix the problem, you need to find +the problematic line(s) and correct them. + * Emacs 20 and later fails to load Lisp files at startup. The typical error message might be like this: -- 2.39.2