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Title: Symbola Causes Java platName Nullpointer Status in ttf-ancient-fonts package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: A few Java programs have issues with the package fonts-symbola. While projects like Eclipse did not, and Jetbrains, Android Studio, and Netbeans did. • It does not seem product facing but instead package facing due to trying to run certain code even under a jshell session. • It does not seem to come directly from a Java version due to multiple versions being affected. 21 and 17 were used. Although user code may be improved to work around this error, it seems a simple removal of the package fixes the issue as shown below. Attached are 3 crash logs in text format. Each of the different instances fail due to font issues with fonts-symbola. The exception Java runs into is: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.startsWith(String)" because "platName" is null I expect that Java should not have font issues against a addition or removal of a font, and is determined not to be by a specific product but even code running in the jshell_crash.txt file itself which shows the cleanest demonstration of the bug. The following fixes the error in Java UIs: • sudo apt purge fonts-symbola. • sudo rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig/ && sudo fc-cache -f -v LSB description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Release: 24.04 Package info: • fonts-symbola: Installed: 2.60-1.1 Candidate: 2.60-1.1 Version table: *** 2.60-1.1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages 500 https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: fonts-symbola 2.60-1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-41.41-generic 6.8.12 Uname: Linux 6.8.0-41-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Thu Aug 22 23:11:37 2024 Dependencies: PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ttf-ancient-fonts UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-ancient-fonts/+bug/2077699/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : ubuntustudio-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
