Comment 6 for bug 174229

I can confirm this bug. In particular it is with the font configuration files provided by the binary package fontconfig-config. A temporary workaround is to force install the gutsy version of fontconfig-config. Ignore any broken package info (update manager will not work for the time being.) I simply do not have the time to go through all of the font configuration file changes between the 2 versions right now to figure out exactly where the problem is in the configuration.