Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a+1-3 Severity: important I started emacs from shell and menu. Alas, I get many boxes. This kind of funny application behavior is the typical situation when correct font is not available. Is this intended thing under en_US.UTF-8 locale? I thought etch was UTF-8 as default.
Since gvim start without problem here, I think default behavior of emacs deserves a bit better support. (I think issue is default font selection.) FYI: xemacs from menu does not even start from menu. From shell, xemacs has interesting message under the same condition: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*, -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-iso10646-1, -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-jisx0208.1983-0, -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-120-*-jisx0201.1976-0" to type FontSet Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Fatal error (11). ... Lisp backtrace follows: # bind (frame-being-created) make-frame(nil #<x-device on ":0.0" 0xb10>) frame-initialize() # bind (debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left) command-line() # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code " code��" ... 1)))) # bind (error-data) normal-top-level() # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) Segmentation fault -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-3 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libungif4g 4.1.4-4 shared library for GIF images ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime emacs21 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yokohama Japan, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract