# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1001532060 0
# Node ID b1091e5046d084463fe08a5fedcb8cafcc9f9088
# Parent  6381cf3c37bd538172b1793928de8bcb36fb8976
Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.

diff -r 6381cf3c37bd -r b1091e5046d0 etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Sep 26 19:11:07 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Wed Sep 26 19:21:00 2001 +0000
@@ -893,6 +893,26 @@
 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: