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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin emacs failing siletnly
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54754747.6070608@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2rWZWVht5r1VHndBewM-iWJ9WWpuYBs5BA+Yr=ROtEADxS7Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/25/2014 8:54 PM, Gulliver Smith wrote:
> Thanks for all of the advice on fc-cache, but it doesn't help my emacs
> run. Does anyone else have any ideas why the fonts are causing emacs
> to blow up?

You said in one of your messages of October 13 that fc-cache is failing. 
emacs-X11 is not going to be able to find any fonts if there's something wrong 
with your fontconfig setup.  You might try running fc-cache under strace to see 
if that gives any clues.

Ken

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-26  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-14  0:19 Gulliver Smith
2014-10-14  0:22 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-11-09 17:10 ` Gulliver Smith
2014-11-09 17:47   ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2014-11-26  1:55 ` Gulliver Smith
2014-11-26  3:21   ` Ken Brown [this message]
2014-10-14  1:16 Gulliver Smith
2014-10-14 16:03 ` Jim Reisert AD1C

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