Bug 741693

Summary: gnome-terminal font spacing uneven, some characters overlapping; Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Phil V <pv.bugzilla>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Phil V 2011-09-27 15:39:21 UTC
Description of problem:
After 'yum update' on 9/26, rebooted for the first time since 9/13. (At 9/13, not updated since sometime in August)
After reboot, gnome-terminal font spacing is always irregular: e.g., the word 'Available' appears "Avai l abl e"
and 'm.' appears with the period inside of the m. '@localhost' appears with @ overstriking the next character.

Rebooting with older kernels does not fix this.

Tried to run 'yum undo' but not every step successful.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-3.0.1-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start gnome-terminal
2. See text in command prompt. Type for more.

Expected results: Ordinary spacing between characters


Additional info:

Comment 1 Phil V 2011-09-27 16:11:52 UTC
Since the system locked up during a yum install Adobereader-enu operation I tried a 
yum reinstall *

The beginning output was lost out of the scrollback buffer, but the tail contains errors:
  Installing : 1:libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts-3.3.3.1-5.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                              1244/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : wqy-zenhei-fonts-0.9.46-2.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                             1245/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : liberation-mono-fonts-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                        1246/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : liberation-sans-fonts-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                        1247/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : khmeros-base-fonts-5.0-11.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                             1248/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : un-core-dotum-fonts-1.0.2-0.16.080608.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                 1249/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : thai-scalable-waree-fonts-0.4.15-2.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                    1250/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : dejavu-sans-mono-fonts-2.33-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                         1251/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : vlgothic-fonts-20110722-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                             1252/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : paratype-pt-sans-fonts-20100408-2.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                     1253/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : dejavu-sans-fonts-2.33-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                              1254/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : dejavu-serif-fonts-2.33-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                             1255/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : stix-fonts-1.0.0-2.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                                    1256/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
  Installing : liberation-serif-fonts-1.07.0-1.fc15.noarch                                                                                                                                                                       1257/1284 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file

Comment 2 Behdad Esfahbod 2011-09-27 16:25:13 UTC
Somehow your fontconfig config file is messed up.  Try reinstalling fontconfig.

Comment 3 Phil V 2011-09-27 22:17:41 UTC
Repeated 'yum reinstall fontconfig' gives the following output (and errors) each time:


Package(s) data still to download: 183 k
fontconfig-2.8.0-3.fc15.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                                                                                                  | 183 kB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : fontconfig-2.8.0-3.fc15.x86_64                                                                                                                                                                                          1/1 
Fontconfig error: line 1: no element found
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file

Installed:
  fontconfig.x86_64 0:2.8.0-3.fc15                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Complete!

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-01-10 15:45:07 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-01-10 15:47:46 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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