libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4.2 is still broken - some text is not rendered

[Alex Yurchenko]

Binary package hint: libcairo2

Upgrading to libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4.2 solved the floating point exception problem many people had with libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4.1. However now it does not render all text on widgets (widgets seem to be of right size though). I have just upgraded to libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4.2, started pidgin and had almost all menus empty. Parts of text were missing on other widgets as well. Had to downgrade to libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4 again.

Using Serene raster fonts from xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi package. amd64 arch.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for the report! Can you give steps to reproduce this problem? I have not yet been able to observe it.

[Dex Chen (dex0827)]

I also have the same problem. In my case some Chinese fonts could not be rendered in pidgin if there are whitespace characters between two Chinese words.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if the gutsy-proposed version fix your issue?

[Kees Cook (kees)]

The proposed fix is related to bug 116236, which actually predates the security update. (?!)

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Reproducer in:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcairo/+bug/173861

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks to Jamie's help with font wrangling, this has been reproduced. Additional upstream fixes have been tested now. This was actually a pre-existing problem (bug 116236) that was uncovered due to the recent memory allocation fixes. The updated packages are making their way through the security build queue now.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

The fixes have been published in http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-550-3