error on start-up: font not defined

[ken]

Just compiled emacs v.23.1.1 and, testing, ran src/emacs -q

Got the following error:

Font `---regular-R-Normal--15------ISO8859-1' is not defined

However, if I do

src/emacs -q -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-90-iso8859-1'

and minor variants in the font specification, emacs loads okay.


What's the problem...?  Anybody know?

# uname -srvmpio
Linux 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:44:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux


Thanks.


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