Pango problems

[William C. Nelson]

Hello,

For every one of my gnome programs, no text appears in menus or dialog
boxes or pretty much anywhere, and I see the following messages:

(evince:14812): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly
output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'

(evince:14812): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string:
assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT (font)' failed

Can anyone explain what is happening, and how I can get my system text back?

thanks,
Bill

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[Wouter Bolsterlee-2]

Op zaterdag 19-09-2009 om 17:27 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef William C.
Nelson:

> For every one of my gnome programs, no text appears in menus or dialog
> boxes or pretty much anywhere, and I see the following messages:
>
> (evince:14812): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly
> output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'
>
> (evince:14812): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string:
> assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT (font)' failed
>
> Can anyone explain what is happening, and how I can get my system text back?

It looks like you don't have any fonts installed on your system. Perhaps
your system is broken? You can try "fc-list" in a terminal to list all
fonts; there should be quite a few under normal circumstances. You may
also try "fc-match Sans" (with a capital S) to query the default font.

    — Wouter


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[William C. Nelson]

Thanks for your reply Wouter.

"fc-list" give me 208 entries, and "fc-match Sans" returns 'albw.ttf: "Albany AMT" "Regular"'
So it looks like the fonts are installed.

Googling this error, some people reported that running "pango-querymodules" fixed the problem for them, but it hasn't worked for me.

Bill

Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:

Op zaterdag 19-09-2009 om 17:27 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef William C.
Nelson:
  

For every one of my gnome programs, no text appears in menus or dialog 
boxes or pretty much anywhere, and I see the following messages:

(evince:14812): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly 
output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'

(evince:14812): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: 
assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT (font)' failed

Can anyone explain what is happening, and how I can get my system text back?
    

It looks like you don't have any fonts installed on your system. Perhaps
your system is broken? You can try "fc-list" in a terminal to list all
fonts; there should be quite a few under normal circumstances. You may
also try "fc-match Sans" (with a capital S) to query the default font.

    — Wouter
  

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