Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:31:47 -0800, Towncat wrote: > > [...] > > > OK, now iceweasel runs, but I realised that there is more to it, > > something to do with fonts and pango. When I start non-kde > > applications under kde, I get little squares instead of fonts. > > > > The output is like this (for xsane, here): > > > > xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, > > expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 10' > > > > (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, > > expect ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans 12.5' > > > > (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. > > shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 12.5', text='French > > (Fran�ais)' > > > > (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called > > with null font argument, expect ugly output > > > > (xsane:9842): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. > > shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans 10', text='XSane > > v�ltozat: 0.995' > > > > > > Ideas, anyone? > > Try to run (as root) "fc-cache -fs" followed by "update-pangox-aliases". > Do you get error messages? Does this improve the situation? > > If the above does not help, post the output of these three commands: > > ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf > > dpkg -l lib{pango,cairo}\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' > > awk '/^Name:.*pango/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian |
Based on the outputs I did a dpkg-reconfigure libcairo2 libpango1.0-common and an fc-cache -fs update-pangox-aliases which seems to have helped.