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I am having trouble finding an init problem where emacs -q gets the error Invalid face: highlight, but emacs -Q does not.

I would like to list the files opened by emacs to track down this problem. Is there a command-line switch to have emacs print the names of the files as it is opening them?

I'm running emacs 27.2 on Ubuntu 21.04, x86_64. (Forced to use vi until the init problem is resolved!)

Chelmite
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  • Probably you could have a look at the recentf-save-file (default "~.emacs.d/recentf"). – gigiair Jul 31 '21 at 20:06
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    Consider placing (setq debug-on-error t) at the outset of your .emacs / init.el file and restart ... perhaps there will be a more detailed backtrace of where the problem might be ... – lawlist Jul 31 '21 at 20:25
  • When you say "files opened by Emacs" what do you mean? Do you mean the Lisp files it has loaded? The answer for that is C-h v load-history - it's a log of all libraries Emacs has loaded and what definitions it's gathered from each one. – Drew Jul 31 '21 at 23:21
  • The difficult thing is that emacs will not create a window when the Invalid face message is issued. Emacs is done when the message is issued to the console. I've renamed my ~/.emacs file and ~/.emacs.d directory so that they can't be accessed. – Chelmite Aug 01 '21 at 21:06
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    If the bug occurs with emacs -q, but not emacs -Q, the problem is most likely in your site-start.el file. See: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28429/how-do-i-troubleshoot-emacs-problems – Tyler Aug 05 '21 at 16:33

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