Mercurial > emacs
changeset 39464:b1091e5046d0
Document problems with bad specifications of the default fontset.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:21:00 +0000 |
| parents | 6381cf3c37bd |
| children | 6912cef77269 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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: