bug#8649: 24.0.50; Face customization interface broken

[Tim Cross]

This is observed with current emacs from BZR revno 104190 and running
as emacs -Q

When you do M-x customize-face, the standard high level custom interface
for setting font attributes is no longer used. Instead, you get a 'raw'
lisp expression without any of the normal custom widgests or extras,
such as the interactive lookup of face colours etc. i.e. what I see now is

Custom settings cannot be saved; maybe you started Emacs with `-q'.
For details, see Saving Customizations in the Emacs manual.

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Hide Default face: [sample]
    State : STANDARD.
   Basic default face.
Lisp expression: 
((t
  (:family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :foundry "unknown" :width normal :height 143 
:weight normal :slant normal :underline nil :overline nil :strike-through nil 
:box nil :inverse-video nil :foreground "black" :background "white" :stipple 
nil :inherit nil)))


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-05-11 on blind-mole
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11001000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Custom

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x c u s t o m i z e - f a c e <return> d e f a u 
l t <return> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Creating customization items...
Creating customization items ...done
Resetting customization items...done
Creating customization setup...done

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message sendmail regexp-opt format-spec rfc822
mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047
rfc2045 ietf-drums mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug
url-util url-parse auth-source assoc gnus-util time-date password-cache
url-vars mm-util mail-prsvr cus-theme eieio-custom eieio byte-opt
bytecomp byte-compile cconv macroexp wid-browse tree-widget pp crm
thingatpt cus-edit easymenu cus-start cus-load wid-edit tooltip
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd
fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer
select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files
text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom
widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk
x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

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University of New England
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