Comment 11 for bug 230809

Same here, but different action leads to it:
open emacs22-gtk, run: m-x customize-face, default, and change height to 10
then click "set":
b7710b96 in kill () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2 0x080fd54b in abort () at emacs.c:432
#3 0x080c73a5 in recompute_basic_faces (f=0x2198) at xfaces.c:959
#4 0x0807f640 in init_iterator (it=0xbf8c38d4, w=0x9594fd8, charpos=-1,
    bytepos=-1, row=0x0, base_face_id=DEFAULT_FACE_ID) at xdisp.c:2533
#5 0x08082957 in x_consider_frame_title (frame=<value optimized out>)
    at xdisp.c:9079
#6 0x08082ae0 in prepare_menu_bars () at xdisp.c:9138
#7 0x08085e30 in redisplay_internal (preserve_echo_area=<value optimized out>)
    at xdisp.c:11043
#8 0x0810efc1 in command_loop_1 () at keyboard.c:1531
#9 0x08169860 in internal_condition_case (bfun=0x810e270 <command_loop_1>,
    handlers=137608889, hfun=0x8107920 <cmd_error>) at eval.c:1484
#10 0x08106d75 in command_loop_2 () at keyboard.c:1330
#11 0x0816993a in internal_catch (tag=137605073,
    func=0x8106d50 <command_loop_2>, arg=137563417) at eval.c:1224
#12 0x08107779 in command_loop () at keyboard.c:1309
#13 0x08107b3a in recursive_edit_1 () at keyboard.c:1007
#14 0x08107c36 in Frecursive_edit () at keyboard.c:1068
#15 0x080fe37f in main (argc=1, argv=0xbf8c4bb4) at emacs.c:1770