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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Hi Al,
I had the exact same problem with the fonts disappearing. In Gnome,
I went to System > Preferences > Font > then I selected subpixel
smoothing for LCD's which is the type of monitor I was using. Somehow it
had defaulted to the option above for CRT. Making that change fixed the
issue with the text disappearing. I'm not sure if it will work for you
but it's worth looking into. I have no idea where the setting would be
in KDE as I haven't gone near that desktop in about 4 years.
In terms of the boxes issue, I read that it was a locales issue
because all of the locales were no longer loaded by default so you
needed to go into /etc/locales.gen and uncomment the locales you want to
have loaded, most commonly:
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
en_US ISO-8859-1
and then run locale-gen to re-generate the supported locales. This
didn't fix the boxes issue for me on one of my boxes, but it did for
other people apparently.
Cheers,
CtM
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