Bug 70349
| Summary: | Certain text cannot be seen, but it seems to be rendered | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | David Coulthart <davec> |
| Component: | gaim | Assignee: | Christopher Blizzard <blizzard> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | limbo | CC: | redhat.com, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-09-03 04:58:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 67218 | ||
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Description
David Coulthart
2002-07-31 18:49:22 UTC
Confirming. It happens to me always. Maybe because practically ever message I receive is likely to contain at least one exotic character? Confirmed, I have this exact same problem too after a custom install of Limbo2. It appears that gaim is unable to display text from certain people but it works fine from other people. If you save the chat logs from these sessions you can see that the text did come in properly, and you can read the HTML font face that causes the problem. In some quick tests just now "Arial" "Verdana" "Times New Roman" and "Tehoma" all caused this same problem for gaim. I didn't have this problem earlier today with my Limbo2 system upgraded from 7.3. I think this may be related to my custom re-install today, very minimal on category selections. I highly suspect that it is missing some necessary font packages. I will do some testing now... Okay this isn't good. I just installed all font packages and those Windows fonts mentioned above still show up as blank. Now that I think about this, I have seen this problem on a fresh install of 7.3 on my friend's system too. =( *** Bug 68496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Strange, I'm having trouble reproducing this. I know that I saw it earlier. I can specify all kinds of fonts on a windows system and gaim seems to be defaulting to the default font as it should. It seems to happen often with a minimal custom install where I chose only Gnome desktop. If we can't solve this, would it be acceptable to insert a workaround patch to gaimrc.c to enable "Ignore font faces" by default? Found a related bug in Evolution where certain text fails to appear. Check out this screenshot below where every instance of "gaim" disappears from the message preview pane when it is in the folder search filter. http://www.mplug.org/archive/2002/evolution-search-blank-bug.php The interesting thing is that if I select the text around the affected area, then middle-click in another application, the text is properly pasted including the word "gaim". After I discovered this, I tried the same thing in gaim. Disabled "Ignore font faces", then asked my Windows AIM friend to send me some messages. They appeared as blank in the gaim chat window, but select highlight and middle-click revealed the proper words. Could this possibly be a more general font system problem, failing to display text in certain circumstances? *** Bug 72008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Shouldn't component of this be "distribution" because it is some rare installation bug that causes this and Evolution fonts to behave improperly? Confirming bug on a fresh install of null. All symptoms exactly like those of warren. redhat.com, 1) What video card do you have? (Try "lspci -n" and please post the line containing "Class 0300".) 2) Was your install a default install (Personal Desktop, Workstation, Server, etc.) or some type of custom? 1) 01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c4d (rev 64) For those curious - 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64) 2) Personal Desktop install, GNOME. Interesting, you have the exact same video card as me, exactly the same PCI ID. However, I only seen this bug when I have done Custom installs of Valhalla, Limbo2 and Null. Although I haven't tried Personal Desktop on this machine... I will test this next. If you have the time, can you try a "Workstation" default install. I *think* that wont exhibit this font behavior. It may have some package that is missing from "Personal Desktop" that is causing our problems. Same problem with Desktop GNOME install on, 01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0110 (rev b2) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX] (rev b2) I'll be reinstalling null on my laptop (Rage Mobility) as workstation. I'll let you know. Reinstalled null on the above mentioned Rage Mobility laptop with a workstation install, and still no text is displayed. (The 'conversation' occurred between my null laptop and my RH7.2 desktop, each with different oscar accounts). I also tried compiling gaim from cvs (and enabled gnome2) and it works well enough, albeit with some font sizing issues. If the user you're communicating with had a font set that you don't have, it wouldn't display. This should be fixed in RAWHIDE, 0.59.1-1 or later. |