Bugzilla – Bug 804994
GTK applications show empty boxes instead of characters and give PANGO errors
Last modified: 2013-03-27 11:57:27 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 During installation, somehow the /usr/lib*/pango/1.8.0/modules.cache does not get set up (even though there is a relating call in the postinstall scriptlet). Running pango-querymodules --update-cache pango-querymodules-64 --update-cache Fixed the problem for me. The typical PANGO error message is: (pavucontrol:26055): Pango-CRITICAL **: No modules found: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. PangoFc will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/etc/pango/pango.modules' You should create this file by running: pango-querymodules > '/etc/pango/pango.modules' (pavucontrol:26055): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin' (pavucontrol:26055): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' Reproducible: Didn't try
Tracking it in bug #806642 (which was raised later, but has already much more debug in it by now). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 806642 ***