Public bug reported: Every so often the update-notifier normally pops up a window mentioning the latest new Ubuntu release. However, after installing lots of Ubuntu fonts and some graphite fonts, the update notifier popup window has stopped showing any text and started showing only weird symbols like boxes and dots, making it totally unreadable. Other applications like gnome-terminal, gedit, konqueror etc are still working ok without displaying these weird symbols. Why is update-notifier not working normally?
This is update-notifier 0.119ubuntu8.6 in Ubuntu 12.04.02 precise. See the sequence attached of 12 screenshots of the weird symbols in update-notifier, showing an attempt to copy-select the lines of symbols in the popup window. ** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: update-notifier ** Summary changed: - update notifier suddenly started using a totally unreadable weird symbols intead of text - boxes and dots + update-notifier suddenly started using totally unreadable weird symbols intead of text - boxes and dots ** Summary changed: - update-notifier suddenly started using totally unreadable weird symbols intead of text - boxes and dots + update-notifier suddenly started using totally unreadable weird symbols instead of text - boxes and dots ** Description changed: Every so often the update-notifier normally pops up a window mentioning the latest new Ubuntu release. However, after installing lots of Ubuntu fonts and some graphite fonts, the update notifier popup window has stopped showing any text and started showing only weird symbols like boxes and dots, making it totally unreadable. Other applications like gnome-terminal, gedit, konqueror etc are still working ok without displaying these weird symbols. Why is update-notifier not working normally? This is update-notifier 0.119ubuntu8.6 in Ubuntu 12.04.02 precise. + + See attached screenshots of the weird symbols in update-notifier. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1170172 Title: update-notifier suddenly started using totally unreadable weird symbols instead of text - boxes and dots To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1170172/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs