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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-08-02 12:24:53 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2019-08-02 12:24:53 +0300
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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)
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@@ -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