FWIW, Bug #18869 on the emacs bugtracker seems to be related: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18869
I did some testing and I can reproduce the crash with the given font "Source Code Pro-9". Some further testing seems to point at the font name itself. Steps to reproduce: ,----[ ~/.emacs [ | (set-face-attribute 'default t :font "SomeBogusFont1") `---- starts the daemon just fine. However with ,----[ ~/.emacs [ | (set-face-attribute 'default t :font "SomeBogusFont-1") `---- , the daemon does not start correctly. This is with GNU Emacs24.5.1 (powerpc-unkwnon-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9) of 2016-04-08 on powerpc-osuosl-01, modifed by Debian on my laptop, running latest debian testing. hth Memnon -- /-------------------------------------------\ | SDF and SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System | | http://sdf.org || http://sdf-eu.org | =============================================
