Comment 5 for bug 230809

Hmmmmmm... it looks like for me it was simply a matter of having a bad package installed...

At one point I installed emacs-snapshot version 1:20080228-2~gutsy from Alex Vassalotti. I realized at some point that emacs-snapshot in the regular archives were now also built with xft support, and removed avassalotti's repository from my sources.list. But apparently I never "downgraded" to a version in the main repositories.

By installing emacs-snapshot-dbgsym, I was forced to realize this and downgrade to 1:20080228-1ubuntu1, which does not have this problem.