Bug 613091

Summary:	PangoWarning: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output (via virt-manager)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Eric Sammons <esammons>
Component:	pango	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	notting, tao, xen-maint
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	6.0
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Description Eric Sammons 2010-07-09 16:46:31 UTC

Description of problem:
All the the text in virt-manager is displayed as small squares, see the attached bitmap

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-0.8.4-3.el6


How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install virt-manager
2. Run virt-manager
  
Actual results:
Text in virt-manager displays as squares.


Expected results:
Text should display

Comment 5 Cole Robinson 2010-07-12 14:37:24 UTC

I can't imagine this is specific to virt-manager. Do other graphical apps have similar issues? Maybe a base package somewhere is missing a proper fonts dep.

Reassigning to pango since it's giving us an error message.

Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2010-07-12 15:40:55 UTC

Sure, if you don't install any fonts, then all graphical apps have the same problem.

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2010-07-12 16:19:04 UTC

This isn't really something that can be expressed in a dependency, though, as the app may need different fonts depending on the locale.

If you need fonts for graphical apps, install the 'fonts' group. This is going to be part of the documentation, see bug 607057.