bug#16443: 24.3.50; White background after loading a theme

[Mattia Ziulu]

When trying to load a dark background such as [0], [1] and the builtin
theme tango-dark, emacs reverts to a white background ("customize-face
RET default RET" tells me that Background has value "#ffffff"). I could
reproduce this behavior with emacs -q and load-ing the theme file, but
not with emacs -Q, where the same invocation gives the expected result.
Additional information has been collected in a recent discussion in the
emacs-help mailing list here[2].

It seems to me, after a brief testing session, that this[3] is be the
commit that causes this behavior. Reverting to a previous commit "fixes" this.


[0]: https://github.com/bbatsov/zenburn-emacs
[1]: http://git.naquadah.org/?p=naquadah-theme.git;a=summary
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2014-01/msg00056.html
[3]: 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=15e14b165dcbc6566a0459b0d5e66f89080f569e


In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.8.8)
 of 2014-01-14 on eagle.tekno-soft.it
Repository revision: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca-20140114025152-6ld7wr555slpguyi
Windowing system distributor `Fedora Project', version 11.0.11404000
System Description:     Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/opt/mattia --with-wide-int
 --enable-link-time-optimization --with-file-notification=inotify
 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O2 -flto=4''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  hl-sexp-mode: t
  erc-spelling-mode: t
  erc-notifications-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  hes-mode: t
  global-superword-mode: t
  superword-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  pretty-control-l-mode: t
  erc-hl-nicks-mode: t
  erc-list-mode: t
  erc-menu-mode: t
  erc-autojoin-mode: t
  erc-ring-mode: t
  erc-networks-mode: t
  erc-pcomplete-mode: t
  erc-track-mode: t
  erc-match-mode: t
  erc-button-mode: t
  erc-fill-mode: t
  erc-stamp-mode: t
  erc-netsplit-mode: t
  erc-irccontrols-mode: t
  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-move-to-prompt-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  elisp-slime-nav-mode: t
  flyspell-mode: t
  global-auto-complete-mode: t
  auto-complete-mode: t
  sublimity-global-mode: t
  sublimity-mode: t
  sml-modeline-mode: t
  smartparens-global-mode: t
  smartparens-mode: t
  projectile-global-mode: t
  projectile-mode: t
  ido-ubiquitous-mode: t
  helm-match-plugin-mode: t
  helm-occur-match-plugin-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  flx-ido-mode: t
  ido-everywhere: t
  global-undo-tree-mode: t
  undo-tree-mode: t
  evil-mode: t
  evil-local-mode: t
  eldoc-mode: t
  global-discover-mode: t
  discover-mode: t
  global-diff-hl-mode: t
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  auto-compile-on-load-mode: t
  auto-compile-on-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-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
  size-indication-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<M-f10> M-x r e p o r t - m <backspace> e m a c s 
<return>

Recent messages:
Disabling `erc-pcomplete'
Error setting magit-diff-refine-hunk: (wrong-type-argument timerp nil)
Loading /home/mattia/.emacs.d/recentf...done
Cleaning up the recentf list...
File 
/home/mattia/.emacs.d/elpa/git-messenger-20140108.811/git-messenger-autoloads.el
 removed from the recentf list
Cleaning up the recentf list...done (1 removed)
Invalid face reference: quote [6 times]
Loading /home/mattia/.emacs.d/custom.el (source)...done
Starting new Ispell process [aspell::default] ...
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Load-path shadows:
/home/mattia/.emacs.d/elpa/js2-mode-20140113.1754/.dir-locals hides 
/home/mattia/.emacs.d/elpa/flycheck-20140113.651/.dir-locals
/home/mattia/.emacs.d/elpa/js2-mode-20140113.1754/.dir-locals hides 
/opt/mattia/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp/gnus/.dir-locals
/home/mattia/.emacs.d/elpa/tabulated-list-20120406.2251/tabulated-list hides 
/opt/mattia/share/emacs/24.3.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/tabulated-list

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erc-desktop-notifications notifications dbus naquadah-theme paren
recentf tree-widget highlight-escape-sequences superword subword time
cus-start cus-load rainbow-mode whitespace zenburn-theme c-eldoc
cc-mode-expansions cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles
cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs sm-package-zenburn-theme
sm-package-rainbow-mode sm-package-pp-c-l pp-c-l
sm-package-naquadah-theme sm-package-hl-sexp sm-package-edit-color-stamp
sm-package-erc-hl-nicks erc-hl-nicks color sm-package-erc erc-list
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