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 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
