Dear all, I did another system upgrade last night and the font problem has now gone away. I guess it was a problem with a specific version of something or other and the updated version solved it.
Thanks for all of the suggestions from everyone. Al On 15/12/06, A. S. Budden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/12/06, CtM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > I tried this with my "new user" and it seems to have solved the > problem _for that user_. Unfortunately, I've been unable to get the > same to work for the enlightenment user or the KDE user. I've tried > running gnome-font-properties and changing the setting for those > users, but it doesn't help. I've also noticed that the same problem > is visible in GDM (if "Session" is clicked for example). I've > currently drawn a blank on what next to try. In addition to the > above, I've tried Roman's suggestion of regenerating the font cache > etc and I've also regenerated xorg.conf with hwd in case that had an > effect, but no joy. I wanted to see if there were any settings in the > KDE control centre, but since I can't see any of the text, it's > impossible to do anything with it: at least in Firefox I can select > the text in the window and it'll appear for a few seconds! > > Can anyone suggest where to go next? I am at a loss and getting close > to thinking about reformatting the hard drive: I'd rather not go down > that route, but if it's the only way I can get a usable computer, then > I have little choice. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Al > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
