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