emacs won't start unless I speciffy font

[Andras Simon]

2011/8/22, Martín Marqués <martin.marques at gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to start emacs on a fresh F15 install and I get this:
>
>
> $ emacs
> Font `8x13' is not defined
>
> The only posible thing I found is to use --font to specify another font.
>
> Any ideas on why this happens?

Perhaps ~/.Xdefaults tries to set the font to a non-existent one?
But if it isn't the proble, it can be the solution: just put the line

Emacs.font: <your font here>

in ~/.Xdefaults. (Unless you restart X, you need to
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
for it to have an effect.)

But maybe this is a very 20th century solution.

Andras