GNU bug report logs - #38437
Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome applications

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 18:30:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Royce Strange <royball <at> disroot.org>

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bug#38437; Package guix. (Sat, 30 Nov 2019 18:30:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-guix <at> gnu.org. (Sat, 30 Nov 2019 18:30:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome applications
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:41:57 -0500
[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Some Gnome applications (Claws Mail and Glade in my case) show
rectangles in place of characters. Screenshot of this is attached.
Terminal logs in these cases show for example:

(claws-mail:14616): Pango-WARNING **: 12:31:34.945: shaping failure,
expect ugly output. shape-engine='PangoFcShapeEngine', font='Cantarell
Oblique 11', text='Personal'

I've tried manually installing 'font-abattis-cantarell' into my
profile, which did not solve this problem.
[Screenshot from 2019-11-30 12-13-19.png (image/png, attachment)]

Information forwarded to bug-guix <at> gnu.org:
bug#38437; Package guix. (Sat, 30 Nov 2019 19:11:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 38437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
To: jonathan <at> terracrypt.net
Cc: 38437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38437: Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome
 applications
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 20:10:30 +0100
> Some Gnome applications (Claws Mail and Glade in my case) show
> rectangles in place of characters. Screenshot of this is attached.
> Terminal logs in these cases show for example:
> 
> (claws-mail:14616): Pango-WARNING **: 12:31:34.945: shaping failure,
> expect ugly output. shape-engine='PangoFcShapeEngine',
> font='Cantarell
> Oblique 11', text='Personal'
> 
> I've tried manually installing 'font-abattis-cantarell' into my
> profile, which did not solve this problem.
Have you tried refreshing your fontconfig cache (i.e. the system cache
in /var/cache/fontconfig)?  I encountered similar issues a while ago
with System Monitor and Tweaks (and so did others, who also reported
the bug), and it seemed to be caused by a stale cache.  IIRC you don't
need to install Cantarell as user, but you may still do so if you wish.

Regards,
Leo





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Message #11 received at 38437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
Cc: 38437 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38437: Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome
 applications
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 17:00:35 -0500
On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 20:10:30 +0100
Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> Have you tried refreshing your fontconfig cache (i.e. the system cache
> in /var/cache/fontconfig)?  I encountered similar issues a while ago
> with System Monitor and Tweaks (and so did others, who also reported
> the bug), and it seemed to be caused by a stale cache.  IIRC you don't
> need to install Cantarell as user, but you may still do so if you
> wish.

Aha! I'd tried refreshing the user-level fontconfig cache with
'fc-cache -f', but I hadn't run that as root to refresh the system
cache. That did the trick. Thank you! :)




Reply sent to Royce Strange <royball <at> disroot.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:02:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Notification sent to Jonathan Frederickson <jonathan <at> terracrypt.net>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:02:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #16 received at 38437-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Royce Strange <royball <at> disroot.org>
To: 38437-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Cantarell Oblique fonts fail to render in some Gnome applications
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 22:01:33 -0500
Hello.

Leo Prikler helped Jonathan Freder fix his issue by refreshing the 
system's fontconfig cache.

Going to go ahead and close.




bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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