[hardy] squares instead of text after fontconfig upgrade until applications are restarted

[Fernando Miguel]

Binary package hint: nautilus

i see squares (originated by unrecognized fonts) on the folder of nautilus

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Did you restart since the fontconfig update? The running applications seems to have issues with the version change

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Hi Sebastien.
After a dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig and a reboot, it seems to be working fine.
Thanks.

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug as invalid then, thanks you.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Rather reassigning to fontconfig, that might be an issue on upgrade to hardy

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

yes, it should be kept open.
maybe someone else will suffer from this problem, until it is truly fixed.

[dm (dmitry-shaposhnik)]

I am someone else =)
Well, the fonts in skype are ugly (no antialiasing), in Firefox monospace turned to 6px. Workaround - turn back to *fontconfig* from gutsy.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

so there have been only two reports of this bug since December (and one of them referring to different issues of "ugly" fonts)? If fonts were generally broken after a fontconfig upgrade from default gutsy to default hardy, we should generally expect a lot more confirmations of this bug.

Fernando, have you installed any extra font packages on your system by hand, or made changes to the default font selections in System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts?

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

On Sunday 23 March 2008 23:44:32 Steve Langasek wrote:
> If fonts were generally broken after a fontconfig upgrade from default gutsy to
> default hardy, we should generally expect a lot more confirmations of this bug.

Yes, I would expect it too, but havent seen anymore users complaining, so it might have been a one-time incident.

> Fernando, have you installed any extra font packages on your system by hand, or made changes to the default font selections in System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts?

I just have the usual Full Hinting, 96 DPIs, and LCD setting.

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Obviously, this is a cosmetic issue so listing it as Critical seems way too extreme. I've dropped it to Low.

Also, while this certainly sounds like a legitimate bug, given that only two users are reporting it, this really doesn't seem appropriate to be milestoned.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 07:34:31 Bryce Harrington wrote:
> ** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Low => Medium

Ok, what made you change the importance back up?? lol

[totally off topic]
Bryce how is the new displayconfig-gtk going?
Any progress with it, or wont it be in Hardy?
also it doesnt use policykit. I'll open a bug for it
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[finch127 (mirpurisuraj1)]

alright so i have this bug as well on my laptop, but it isnt cosmetic, i cant see anything, its all squares

when i open a terminal the type in the terminal is legible but nothing else

also i am on hardy

[rod (rodolphe)]

I have something not cosmetic at all, with all the gutsy menus'texts as squares, the only place I know that can handle still normal fonts is the terminal.
If I launch gedit from term, it goes on showing 3 Pango-WARNINGs :
"failed to find shape engine" for script = 'latin' and script = 'common', and "pango_cairo_font_get_scaled_font called with bad font."
So I could too expect ugly output.
It happened just after trying to install atk which seemed to be needed by pango, when putting the commands :
"svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/atk/trunk atk"
"cd atk"
"./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr"
might be not exactly fontconfig-related, but still a problem that seemed to have be encountered by some users (more than 3)...

[mayormike (mmortmr)]

I'll confirm the problem. I was doing automatic updates and was updating to Ubuntu 8. I have nothing but squares/rectangles where the text should be. When I type in firefox or the terminal (only able to start by looking at the icon) the fonts are fine. All dialog boxes, including any config boxes show only squares. I am not linux-savy enough to know what the squares should say. I also have not found any solution on the net.

[rod (rodolphe)]

I solved my issue, after trying several things gathered on lots of locations, which did not work :
I just desinstalled pango, then removed all pango-related files under /usr/local/lib before reinstalling pango...
Let me say that I simply could not believe it !

[mayormike (mmortmr)]

Thanks for the fast reply. Is there a way to uninstall pango from the
terminal? If so, would you know the command structure?
Thanks.

rod wrote:
> I solved my issue, after trying several things gathered on lots of locations, which did not work :
> I just desinstalled pango, then removed all pango-related files under /usr/local/lib before reinstalling pango...
> Let me say that I simply could not believe it !
>
>

[rod (rodolphe)]

I did
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo rm libpango*
(to remove all files with name beginning by libpango)

cd /usr/local
sudo rm -r pango

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
cd /home/myuser/
checked which files were with pango in the name, with
ls -a
then did
sudo rm -r pango-1.20.5

Mind that this exact sequence won't work with you if pango was not installed in the same places.
Hope it helps,

rod

[mayormike (mmortmr)]

Thanks again for the prompt replies and help.
Mike

rod wrote:
> I did
> cd /usr/local/lib
> sudo rm libpango*
> (to remove all files with name beginning by libpango)
>
> cd /usr/local
> sudo rm -r pango
>
> sudo apt-get install --reinstall libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
> cd /home/myuser/
> checked which files were with pango in the name, with
> ls -a
> then did
> sudo rm -r pango-1.20.5
>
> Mind that this exact sequence won't work with you if pango was not installed in the same places.
> Hope it helps,
>
> rod
>
>

[YoBoY (yoboy-leguesh)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

I mark it invalid for now, fell free to return it to incomplete again if you have more informations.