On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:55:39 -0500 > Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Somehow, after upgrading some packages this morning, I no longer have >> fonts in any gtk apps I've tried (Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP). >> Chromium mostly works, fonts show on web pages, but there are no >> visible fonts in the tab titles or in the address bar. Konqueror and >> all KDE apps seem to work completely fine. >> >> I've rolled back all of the installed packages, but the problem still >> remains. I have tried changing gtk theme, changing fonts, but it makes >> no difference. I rebuilt gtk+ (2 and 3) but nothing changed. I don't >> know what else to try. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions or know what might be the cause? >> >> These are the packages I upgraded this morning: >> >> Fri Jul 27 09:37:54 2012 >>> media-gfx/pngcrush-1.7.33 >> Fri Jul 27 09:38:15 2012 >>> x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.37 >> Fri Jul 27 09:38:34 2012 >>> dev-libs/nettle-2.5 >> Fri Jul 27 09:38:54 2012 >>> sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.7 >> Fri Jul 27 09:39:57 2012 >>> net-misc/dhcp-4.2.4_p1 >> Fri Jul 27 09:40:49 2012 >>> sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.5.0 >> Fri Jul 27 09:41:16 2012 >>> app-text/hunspell-1.3.2-r3 >> Fri Jul 27 09:42:53 2012 >>> dev-lang/v8-3.11.10.17 >> Fri Jul 27 09:43:10 2012 >>> dev-util/indent-2.2.11-r1 >> Fri Jul 27 09:44:19 2012 >>> net-dns/bind-tools-9.9.1_p2 >> Fri Jul 27 09:45:17 2012 >>> app-portage/eix-0.26.1 >> Fri Jul 27 09:45:34 2012 >>> sys-kernel/dracut-022 >> Fri Jul 27 10:07:35 2012 >>> www-client/chromium-21.0.1180.55 >> Fri Jul 27 10:07:44 2012 >>> net-misc/whois-5.0.18 >> Fri Jul 27 10:08:53 2012 >>> app-office/akonadi-server-1.8.0 >> Fri Jul 27 10:12:03 2012 >>> media-libs/mesa-8.1_rc1_pre20120724 >> Fri Jul 27 10:13:33 2012 >>> x11-libs/cairo-1.12.2-r2 >> Fri Jul 27 10:13:53 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.1 >> Fri Jul 27 10:14:08 2012 >>> x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.7.1 >> Fri Jul 27 10:14:37 2012 >>> x11-themes/qtcurve-qt4-1.8.13 >> Fri Jul 27 10:14:51 2012 >>> www-client/opera-12.01.1528 > > I had a similar upgrade list, but I don't have font problems, so I > doubt your problem is widespread. The only package there that seems to > have anything to do with fonts is cairo - is there anything at all > relevant in the build log? Did you reboot/logout/restart X at all and > did this give any errors?
Thank you! It was Cairo. Upon further inspection, when I "reverted" it earlier, I actually masked the new version -- I did not realize the second-newest version was also one I had not previously installed. After masking >=1.12.2 and reinstalling 1.10.2-r3, everything is back to normal. There's apparently something in 1.12.2 that makes fonts invisible on my system, or perhaps something I need to rebuild to take advantage of it. Thanks again, Paul
