[arch] Font problems after pacman -Syu

[Guillermo A. Amaral]

On Thursday 14 December 2006 18:50, A. S. Budden wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I recently moved house and, after my computer had been in a box for a
> bit over a month, I thought it would be worthwhile to get it up-to-date
> by doing pacman -Syu.  I am beginning to regret that decision.
>
> After the upgrade, the fonts in GDM were replaced with little square
> boxes.  This was (relatively) easily fixed courtesy of a page I found on
> the Arch site somewhere: I just had to generate /etc/pango/pango.modules
> according to the provided command.  I did this and GDM started working
> again.  However, this wasn't the end of my font woes.  I logged into
> enlightenment and everything seemed fine: the fonts in the Epplets and
> in my Xterm were fine and everything seemed to be working ok, until I
> loaded Firefox (or should that be "Bon Echo"?).
>
> The text in the title bar keeps disappearing, as does the text in the
> window itself.  Occasionally it'll reappear (particularly if you select
> the text), but it never stays there for long.  The same is seen in gvim
> and many other programs.  OpenOffice maintains the text okay in the
> Window, but the title/menu bar doesn't cope.
>
> I have also tried checking a different login on the computer (using
> KDE).  The Konsole text is invisible, as is that in Konqueror and the
> KDE menu (and probably many other programs).  Thunderbird and Firefox
> display the "intermittent text" problem described above.
>
> I have uploaded some screenshots of the problem to my webspace:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ycdqt7
> http://tinyurl.com/ycoovs
> http://tinyurl.com/yddl44
> http://tinyurl.com/yg25p7
>
> An extract from pacman.log showing the upgrade is here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yggp6o
>
> I can find no reference to this problem anywhere, so I am struggling
> to find a solution (particularly given that Firefox is so hard to use).
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions with this please?  I am at a loss and
> my Arch Linux is unusable!
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Al
>
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Have you tried to create a new test user and log in with? that might give a 
few hits if it's a configuration problem.

? "Bon Echo" is the Mozilla Firefox upstream dev name, Firefox without 
branding.

-- 
Guillermo A. Amaral, BCSE
@ site: http://www.guillermoamaral.com/
@ blog: http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/
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