Invisible fonts in GTK(+2) apps with dejavu in -current.

pdw_hu · 03-17-2008, 02:03 AM

Hi!

I've encountered the most disturbing issue with linux in my career so far.
So: I'm running -current on both my desktop and my laptop. I've upgraded them both with the new dejavu-fonts-ttf package.

After the upgrade, when I turned on the laptop the following day all my fonts were gone as seen here.
This happens to all GTK+2 apps (don't have any GTK1).

But this only happens on the laptop,the desktop doesn't suffer from any of this.

After about 10+ hours of trying different things (package reinstallation, countless fc-cache updates, removing the new scripts from /etc/fonts/conf.d/, countless reboots) I ended up with reinstalling the whole thing. Updated again this time everything was fine. I rebooted again just to be sure it still was fine, but again the next day the fonts were gone again :/

Any tips?

Eternal_Newbie · 03-17-2008, 04:57 AM

The dajavu package was renamed. Check the changelog and CHANGES_AND_HINTS.txt for details. It could be a conflict between the old dejavu fonts package and the renamed one. Try removing both and reinstalling the new one. Haven't experienced this, luckily.

Also do you have a line in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file like this?

Code:

gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans 10"

pdw_hu · 03-17-2008, 05:07 AM

Yes i've tried the packaging stuff (about 55 times :P)

I've had "DejaVu Sans:style=Book 8" in my .gtkrc-2.0, needless to say i've tried changing that to all other fonts and they still don't work.

pdw_hu · 03-17-2008, 09:20 AM

Okay seriously...

Another reinstall (i didn't even install the old dejavu this time), more countless reboots during which everything was perfectly fine.

I turned the computer off then on, and the fonts just disappeared again..

What kind of a computer error is this?

pdw_hu · 03-17-2008, 10:58 AM

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I've downgraded X to 1.3 (with the necessary xorg-intel, xf86-input-keyboard and mouse downgrades), and it seems after turn off/on-s and reboots that it's okay now.

I still don't understand what went wrong, and also why did it only came up for me...
So it now seems solved... Hope it stays

Seriously.... What the f*ck is going on?
I doesn't work again...

pdw_hu · 03-20-2008, 12:42 PM

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Well I've manually upgraded the fontconfig-2.4.2 package to the latest 2.5.91, and my problem seems to go away (again...) so far.

Nevermind this again, it still isn't okay :/

pdw_hu · 03-25-2008, 11:13 AM

Okay, so now it seems: intel driver: do not enable FramebufferCompression.
I really hope this was the cause.