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UclaBob
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 Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 3:41 am Post subject: emerge world leaves KDE with no legible fonts |
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So I did my weekly | Code: | emerge sync
emerge -p world
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This morning, and nothing looked that suspicious (as I recall a kportage, php_mod, dc_gui, and one other upgrade)...however after the emerge and a restart....startx loaded KDE with a pretty nasty suprise, like....all the chars from like any font (with the exception of the control panel font) were replaced with the invalid char symbol...konsole loaded up completely filled with such chars....
This of course makes X-unusable...and I'm not sure what to unmerge and reemerge...
Anybody have any suggestions / guidance ?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:01 am Post subject: |
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I have a similar problem. I think the fault lies with the version of qt you have installed - mine is 3.1.0-r3, and some fonts are unreadable (sadly, all the ones used in my control panel, where I might be able to change the settings.) 
However, other fonts are working fine. There is a currently masked version of qt - 3.1.1 - I'm going to try emerging that and see what happens. |
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bammbamm808
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 6:33 am Post subject: Is this the problem I had, I wonder? |
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Do you get only rectangles? If so, it's very, very easy to fix. For some reason emerging KDE 3.1 introduced this problem for me. I just checked, and all the fonts in question were only root-accessible. No rwx for anyone else. I simply chmod-ed all the fonts and there you go.
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UclaBob
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Ya...I have the rectangles...
I went in and started KDE under root, and it displayed fine...
what should the permissions on my fonts be ? Right now, I think that every group has read access...I'll try giving execute, and see if that works or not...
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bammbamm808
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, once I realized root had all the characters, that clued me in, too. Kinda strange that emerging KDE3.1 would have this side-effect. Does it change the permissions on the fonts (unlikely), or just handle them differently? I don't know. I'm just glad it was something simple for once.
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UclaBob
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Well I went to every path in the font section of XFree86, and did a
Restarting X under a non root user yielded no different....root still displays fine (well, obviously)...what am I missing ?
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bammbamm808
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Let's see...what else did I try first? I upgraded freetype...Search the forums here. I tried a bunch of stuff from the forum fist, but I still didn't get proper character display until I did chmod, so maybe it was a combination of things.
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jimmybfan
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| had a similar problem after upgrading to qt-3.1.0-r3. if you log in as the user who doesnt havew fonts and then open the control panel and then go to where the fonts selection is and try and select different fonts they whould all reappear in the selection boxes. you will have to reselect all fonts, i.e. in the control panel and in other konqueror dialogs for desktop, etc. I hope this is clear. |
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UclaBob
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| Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| so you are saying that for each app, I need to go in and reselect the fonts...how annoying, I'll try in it in a minute. |
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UclaBob
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 6:58 am Post subject: Problem Solved! |
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I don't know if anybody cares, but just for anybody else who might have this problem one day. I did a bunch of re-emerging of stuff (qt, xft, kdelibs, font stuff (don't remember actual names)....and I checked after each emerge, but what made everything better was re-emerging xfree...
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mangaf
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| Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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I have a similar problem, some fonts (xfree 75 and 100 dpi) appeared in screen like spaces.
To solve I enter with root privileges in [control panel- fonts instaled], disable and then enable 75 and 100 dpi font. Restarting applications solved the problem to any user |
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