I can confirm this happens with my instance of Emacs 24.3.1 as well. At some point after Emacs is launched as a daemon, I lose the ability to create new frames. Typically, there will be a mix of mu4e, Clojure, nrepl and org-mode buffers open. It does not matter how I try to create a new frame - (M-x new-frame, C-x 5 b *scratch*, C-x 5 f <filename>) - all fail with the following error :
x-create-frame-with-faces: bad text pointer cursor: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
This is on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation with a self-compiled Emacs 23.4. An edited version of emacs-report-bug output follows.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
of 2013-04-28 on scimitar
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
System Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Fundamental
Minor modes in effect:
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
iswitchb-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
<elided>
Recent messages:
nrepl connection closed: deleted
[mu4e] Found 10 matching messages
[mu4e] Retrieving mail...
[mu4e] Indexing... processed 61000, updated 0
[mu4e] Indexing completed; processed 61439, updated 0, cleaned-up 0
x-create-frame-with-faces: bad text pointer cursor: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Mark set
Mark activated
Making completion list...
Load-path shadows:
None found.
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