diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 89c0bb8fd8e..cb13ffa8dd8 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-10-30  Dmitry Antipov  <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
+
+	* xfaces.c (Finternal_set_lisp_face_attribute): Don't try to realize
+	font on an initial frame when running as a daemon (Bug#18869).
+
 2014-10-30  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
 
 	* fileio.c (Fexpand_file_name): Use make_unibyte_string, not
diff --git a/src/xfaces.c b/src/xfaces.c
index 6afa0a2953d..446107ef3b7 100644
--- a/src/xfaces.c
+++ b/src/xfaces.c
@@ -3116,9 +3116,9 @@ FRAME 0 means change the face on all frames, and change the default
               /* FIXME:
                  If frame is t, and selected frame is a tty frame, the font
                  can't be realized.  An improvement would be to loop over frames
-                 for a non-tty frame and use that.  See discussion in
-                 bug#18573.  */
-              if (f->terminal->type != output_termcap)
+                 for a non-tty frame and use that.  See discussion in Bug#18573.
+                 For a daemon, frame may be an initial frame (Bug#18869).  */
+              if (FRAME_WINDOW_P (f))
                 {
                   if (! FONT_OBJECT_P (value))
                     {