Re: Mysterious command line message on launch
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
robert> The same error shows up in my console whenever I
launch
robert> XEmacs from a terminal prompt and have it run in its own
robert> window but not when I run it as a TTY.
I've seen it on Linux, too. It's not part of XEmacs, so it has to
have come from Xlib (or some other X library). I would guess it's a
misconfiguration of XFree86 of some kind, as I've never seen it from
my local build, only from the Debian package.
It's from the XFree86 version of Xlib (lib/X11/Font.c):
if ((addr = shmat(reply.shmid, 0, SHM_RDONLY)) == (char *)-1) {
if (extcodes->serverCapabilities & CAP_VerifiedLocal)
fprintf(stderr, "_XF86BigfontQueryFont: could not attach shm segment\n");
The XFree86 implementations of XQueryFont() and XLoadQueryFont() try
_XF86BigfontQueryFont() before _XQueryFont() if USE_XF86BIGFONT is
defined.
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