problem with fonts after upgrade

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 30 10:34:38 PST 2007


Joey Mingrone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Over the holidays I decided to upgrade my ports after several months
> and everything went well except some fonts in gtk-2 applications seem
> to be messed up.  Sorry, I'm not really sure how to explain this
> better.  Here is a
> screenshot of gkrellm: http://jrm.ath.cx/misc/messed_up_fonts.png
> 
> As you can see, the fonts are so large they overlap.  I didn't change
> any of my configuration files (xorg.conf, ~/fonts.conf, ~/.gtkrc-2.0,
> etc).  Here is the output from /var/log/xorg.log:
> http://jrm.ath.cx/misc/Xorg.0.log
> 
> It seems as though the usual fonts cannot be rendered so some sort of
> defaults are being used.  Are there any logs I should be checking,
> looking for a message like "such and such fonts could not be found"?

There was a discussion on font corruption on this list very recently.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-December/018810.html

Joe

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