Package: fontconfig
Version: 2.11.0-6.5
Severity: important
User: Simon Kirby <s...@netnation.com>
Similar to #828037, I just experienced an issue with fonts after an
"apt-get upgrade". However, this was caused by system-wide cache learning
about half-installed fonts with the .dpkg-new extension.
Pidgin begun drawing some characters as boxes. The cause seems to be that
the fontconfig cache was regenerated with some ".dpkg-new" files, which
were gone once apt-get finished:
stderr output and excerpt of "strace -e access" of pidgin starting:
(Pidgin:24512): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect
ugly output. the offending font is 'DejaVu Sans Bold 13.1982421875'
(Pidgin:24512): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: file not found
access("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf.dpkg-new", R_OK) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[sroot@oof:/var/cache/fontconfig]# grep -r DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf.dpkg-new .
Binary file ./d589a48862398ed80a3d6066f4f56f4c-le64.cache-4 matches
[sim@oof:/home/sim]% fc-list | grep dpkg
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf.dpkg-new:
LiberationMono\-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf.dpkg-new: DejaVu
Sans:style=Bold
My root shell runs with PAGER set to "less -Q -j16" which breaks debconf
frontends lately (another bug I need to submit), so an apt-get run often
aborts without finishing unless I remember to run it again with PAGER
cleared. I am not sure if this is the cause or not here, I see that
/var/log/dpkg.log has some interesting trigger information, which I've
posted at http://0x.ca/sim/ref/fontconfig/dpkg.log . Here is an excerpt
by "grep font | uniq":
2016-08-19 23:40:25 upgrade fonts-liberation:all 1.07.4-1 2.00.1-2
2016-08-19 23:40:25 status half-configured fonts-liberation:all 1.07.4-1
2016-08-19 23:40:25 status unpacked fonts-liberation:all 1.07.4-1
2016-08-19 23:40:25 status half-installed fonts-liberation:all 1.07.4-1
2016-08-19 23:40:25 status triggers-pending fontconfig:amd64 2.11.0-6.5
2016-08-19 23:40:25 status half-installed fonts-liberation:all 1.07.4-1
2016-08-19 23:40:25 status unpacked fonts-liberation:all 2.00.1-2
2016-08-19 23:40:42 upgrade fonts-opensymbol:all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-1
2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-2
2016-08-19 23:40:42 status half-configured fonts-opensymbol:all
2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-1
2016-08-19 23:40:42 status unpacked fonts-opensymbol:all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-1
2016-08-19 23:40:42 status half-installed fonts-opensymbol:all
2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-1
2016-08-19 23:40:42 status unpacked fonts-opensymbol:all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-2
2016-08-19 23:40:52 upgrade fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.36-1 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status half-configured fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status unpacked fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status half-installed fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status unpacked fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 upgrade fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.36-1 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status half-configured fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status unpacked fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status half-installed fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:52 status unpacked fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:40:53 upgrade fonts-dejavu:all 2.36-1 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:40:53 status half-configured fonts-dejavu:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:53 status unpacked fonts-dejavu:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:53 status half-installed fonts-dejavu:all 2.36-1
2016-08-19 23:40:53 status unpacked fonts-dejavu:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:14 configure fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.37-1 <none>
2016-08-19 23:41:14 status unpacked fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:14 status half-configured fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:14 status installed fonts-dejavu-core:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:16 configure fonts-liberation:all 2.00.1-2 <none>
2016-08-19 23:41:16 status unpacked fonts-liberation:all 2.00.1-2
2016-08-19 23:41:16 status half-configured fonts-liberation:all 2.00.1-2
2016-08-19 23:41:16 status installed fonts-liberation:all 2.00.1-2
2016-08-19 23:41:22 configure fonts-opensymbol:all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-2 <none>
2016-08-19 23:41:22 status unpacked fonts-opensymbol:all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-2
2016-08-19 23:41:22 status half-configured fonts-opensymbol:all
2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-2
2016-08-19 23:41:22 status installed fonts-opensymbol:all 2:102.7+LibO5.2.0-2
2016-08-19 23:41:22 configure fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.37-1 <none>
2016-08-19 23:41:22 status unpacked fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:22 status half-configured fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:22 status installed fonts-dejavu-extra:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:23 trigproc fontconfig:amd64 2.11.0-6.5 <none>
2016-08-19 23:41:23 status half-configured fontconfig:amd64 2.11.0-6.5
2016-08-19 23:41:25 status installed fontconfig:amd64 2.11.0-6.5
2016-08-19 23:41:25 configure fonts-dejavu:all 2.37-1 <none>
2016-08-19 23:41:25 status unpacked fonts-dejavu:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:25 status half-configured fonts-dejavu:all 2.37-1
2016-08-19 23:41:25 status installed fonts-dejavu:all 2.37-1
Is the issue here just that trigproc happened while fonts-dejavu was
half-installed?
Cheers,
Simon-
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-oof (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages fontconfig depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.10
ii fontconfig-config 2.11.0-6.5
ii libc6 2.23-4
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.5
ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b1
fontconfig recommends no packages.
fontconfig suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
* fontconfig/hinting_type: Native
* fontconfig/rendering_type: Bytecode interpreter (CRT screens)
fontconfig/overwrite_existing_local_conf: false
* fontconfig/enable_autohinter: false
* fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: false
* fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic
