Sorry for a followup to my own post, or rather sorry for posting w/out
investigating the problem first. It turned out that in
custom-set-faces, most of my faces were specified with (background
light) whereas my current background is "dark". I still do not know
why it worked before, but looks like it was another bug that got
fixed.
I wrote:
Hi,
Subj. I had re-defined most of faces in my XEmacs to use a dark
background. All worked well till b31. Now in beta 32 the problem is
still there - most of my customized faces look like (also redefined)
default face. This is true for at least font lock and gnus. OTOH,
modeline faces are fine (I changed them too). My XEmacs is cygwin.
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Cheers,
-Dima.