[Bug 60155] Re: [edgy, libmagick] any display command (shell w/o additional arguments, magickcore, magick++ etc) fails because of missing fonts making especially c/c++ API's useless as one cannot chan

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 63408 *** It looks as though the problem is that the upgrade from dapper failed to change the font paths in xorg.conf from /usr/share/X11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts/X11. Marking this duplicate of bug 63408 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 63408

[Bug 60155] Re: [edgy, libmagick] any display command (shell w/o additional arguments, magickcore, magick++ etc) fails because of missing fonts making especially c/c++ API's useless as one cannot chan

** Description changed: + [solution found] The below happens only when updating from previous + Ubuntu versions keeping your xorg.conf unchanged. After updating to + Edgy, my xorg.conf's Files section carried FontPath's to + /usr/share/X11/fonts/... whereas on Edgy fonts are in /usr/share/fonts +

[Bug 60155] Re: [edgy, libmagick] any display command (shell w/o additional arguments, magickcore, magick++ etc) fails because of missing fonts making especially c/c++ API's useless as one cannot chan

I can confirm the bug. To reproduce just call: display /usr/share/backgrounds/Ubuntu-Simple_Human_1600x1200.png Or if you have graphicsmagick instead of imagemagck installed: gm display /usr/share/backgrounds/Ubuntu-Simple_Human_1600x1200.png Using -font fixed is really an ugly workaround.