Re: emacs bugs post upgrade to etch

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:37 +0100, michael wrote:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352811
> Anybody managed to get emacs to give sensible fonts as opposed to chars
> like empty boxes? My setup is
> michael@ratty:~$ dpkg -l|grep -i emacs;locale -a;set |grep -e LANG -e LC
> ii  emacs                            21.4a+1-3
> The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
> rc  emacs-goodies-el                 26.9-1
> Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
> ii  emacs21                          21.4a+1-3
> The GNU Emacs editor
> ii  emacs21-bin-common               21.4a+1-3
> The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture dependent files
> ii  emacs21-common                   21.4a+1-3
> The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture independent infrastr
> ii  emacs21-el                       21.4a+1-3
> GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
> ii  emacsen-common                   1.4.17
> Common facilities for all emacsen
> C
> en_GB
> en_GB.iso88591
> en_GB.iso885915
> en_GB.utf8
> POSIX
> LANG=en_GB
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en_GB:en
> MAILCHECK=60
> 

Further info, I can start emacs:
michael@ratty:~/src/mpich2-1.0.5p4$ emacs -fn fixed

but if I then 'set font/fontset' several (eg Courier 12pt) give "font
not found", but others give me what I think is a reason font. But
occasionally 'set font/fontset' throws a segmentation fault

So a workaround is to alias emacs to eg emacs -fn 9x15

M