Re: [gentoo-user] No fonts in any gtk apps

[Alan McKinnon]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:55:39 -0500
Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Somehow, after upgrading some packages this morning, I no longer have
> fonts in any gtk apps I've tried (Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP).
> Chromium mostly works, fonts show on web pages, but there are no
> visible fonts in the tab titles or in the address bar. Konqueror and
> all KDE apps seem to work completely fine.
>
> I've rolled back all of the installed packages, but the problem still
> remains. I have tried changing gtk theme, changing fonts, but it makes
> no difference. I rebuilt gtk+ (2 and 3) but nothing changed. I don't
> know what else to try.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or know what might be the cause?
>
> These are the packages I upgraded this morning:
>
>      Fri Jul 27 09:37:54 2012 >>> media-gfx/pngcrush-1.7.33
>      Fri Jul 27 09:38:15 2012 >>> x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.37
>      Fri Jul 27 09:38:34 2012 >>> dev-libs/nettle-2.5
>      Fri Jul 27 09:38:54 2012 >>> sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.7
>      Fri Jul 27 09:39:57 2012 >>> net-misc/dhcp-4.2.4_p1
>      Fri Jul 27 09:40:49 2012 >>> sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.5.0
>      Fri Jul 27 09:41:16 2012 >>> app-text/hunspell-1.3.2-r3
>      Fri Jul 27 09:42:53 2012 >>> dev-lang/v8-3.11.10.17
>      Fri Jul 27 09:43:10 2012 >>> dev-util/indent-2.2.11-r1
>      Fri Jul 27 09:44:19 2012 >>> net-dns/bind-tools-9.9.1_p2
>      Fri Jul 27 09:45:17 2012 >>> app-portage/eix-0.26.1
>      Fri Jul 27 09:45:34 2012 >>> sys-kernel/dracut-022
>      Fri Jul 27 10:07:35 2012 >>> www-client/chromium-21.0.1180.55
>      Fri Jul 27 10:07:44 2012 >>> net-misc/whois-5.0.18
>      Fri Jul 27 10:08:53 2012 >>> app-office/akonadi-server-1.8.0
>      Fri Jul 27 10:12:03 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-8.1_rc1_pre20120724
>      Fri Jul 27 10:13:33 2012 >>> x11-libs/cairo-1.12.2-r2
>      Fri Jul 27 10:13:53 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.1
>      Fri Jul 27 10:14:08 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.1
>      Fri Jul 27 10:14:37 2012 >>> x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4-1.8.13
>      Fri Jul 27 10:14:51 2012 >>> www-client/opera-12.01.1528

I had a similar upgrade list, but I don't have font problems, so I
doubt your problem is widespread. The only package there that seems to
have anything to do with fonts is cairo - is there anything at all
relevant in the build log? Did you reboot/logout/restart X at all and
did this give any errors?





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Alan McKinnon
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