Comment 3 for bug 1628707

Hello, i have got the same problem.

emacs -q shows the error
emacs -Q doesn't

lets me assume either emacs is doing something worong when getting x configuration or x config is wrong

my work around was putting following line to my .emacs file

(set-face-attribute 'region nil :background "#666" :foreground "#ffffff")

to set back and foreground of selection manually, which solved the problem