Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:00:17 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gtk-based programs have problem with TTF fonts... Message-ID: <4C1A8CE1.7040202@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4C1A7C9C.1040405@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4C1A7C9C.1040405@aldan.algebra.com>
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On 6/17/10 3:50 PM, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > Hello! > > For some reason, fonts in both native firefox and pidgin (the only two > gtk/gnome applications in use here) no longer render as anything, but > boxes. On stderr there are scaring warnings like: > > (Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory > > (Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory > > (Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly > output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans Bold 12', > text='....' > > According to search-engines, people have seen this problem under Linux, > but the fixes/workarounds proposed seem both voodoo and too > Linux-centric :-( > > The linux-firefox continues to work fine, which suggests, the actual > fonts themselves are still Ok. I even tried moving the user's home > directory aside and making her login afresh -- but the problem > persisted, so it is not related to the user-settings. > > I even did `portupgrade -aRr' and still have the problem. > > Any ideas? Thanks! Could be bogus fontconfig data. Try running fc-cache -f -v. I have TTF fonts working for me. I mean, these days you HAVE to have them working. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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