Comment 3 for bug 232417

Same behavior with the Gimp:

1. Start it from the command line in a console window
2. Expect normal behavior
3. No text characters are observable in the program. Each text character has been replaced with a little square.

Console output:

bob@todland:~$ gimp

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans Bold 9', text='English Hello'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 9'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 9'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 9', text='English Hello'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans Oblique 9'

(gimp:6024): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans Oblique 9', text='You can drop dockable dialogs here'