Installing pango-graphite breaks display manager

[Erdal Ronahi]

After installing pango-graphite I was neither able to login through GDM nor LXDM. Also logging in on the terminal and "startx" failed. The system had been running stably for years.

Only removing pango-graphite helped.

[Chris Sykes (jcgs)]

This is worrying, I thought this got sorted out ages ago. Have you had a look at this?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035

[Chris Sykes (jcgs)]

Bug 540035 definitely hasn't re-appeared, I can load firefox fine on oneiric. What version of ubuntu are you using?

[Bill McGonigle (bill-launchpad-net)]

Confirming on the UNR LTS. You can see the gdm backtrace in /var/log/messages with graphite symbols near the top of the stack.

I only installed pango-graphite because apt told me it was recommended for tuxtype.

Since this renders a system unable to login, I'd suggest assigning a high importance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

The fix for pango-graphite (update to new upstream version) is only added in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) and later. Hence yes, this bug does remain in 10.04 (Lucid) currently.

I'll go ahead and try to push the crash-fixing changes as a SRU for Lucid.

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

I've tested this on a virtual kvm-machine with lucid, and confirmed that:

1. pango-graphite + ttf-sil-doulos disables GDM login (doesn't show up, as note in this bug).

2. Upgrading to the 0.9.3-0.1 version that's available in Debian stable fixes the issues in lucid, seemingly completely.

I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of Bug #540035 and noting down the impact it has on lucid, hopefully it should be possible to sync the version from Debian stable to lucid.