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[Emacs-diffs] master b49d987: Mention font-backend related crashes in PR


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: [Emacs-diffs] master b49d987: Mention font-backend related crashes in PROBLEMS
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 05:25:50 -0400 (EDT)

branch: master
commit b49d987a8cf5f5dd7ba864e20995e21765eaefcf
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    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)
---
 etc/PROBLEMS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 785e6e1..2d56cc7 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



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