Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:50:52 -0400 From: mi@aldan.algebra.com To: x11@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: gtk-based programs have problem with TTF fonts... Message-ID: <4C1A7C9C.1040405@aldan.algebra.com>
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Hello!
For some reason, fonts in both native firefox and pidgin (the only two
gtk/gnome applications in use here) no longer render as anything, but
boxes. On stderr there are scaring warnings like:
(Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory
(Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory
(Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly
output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans Bold 12',
text='....'
According to search-engines, people have seen this problem under Linux,
but the fixes/workarounds proposed seem both voodoo and too
Linux-centric :-(
The linux-firefox continues to work fine, which suggests, the actual
fonts themselves are still Ok. I even tried moving the user's home
directory aside and making her login afresh -- but the problem
persisted, so it is not related to the user-settings.
I even did `portupgrade -aRr' and still have the problem.
Any ideas? Thanks!
-mi
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