Bug 760837

Summary: text does not show up in menus or sporadically works
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: pjrom007
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: browning48ky, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description pjrom007 2011-12-07 04:22:05 UTC
Created attachment 541719 [details]
Example of the problem.

Description of problem: Text doesn't completely show up in menus- it will look garbled or merely have letters missing from random parts of the words. This happens in ALL of the GUI items (menu's, alerts, etc.).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 16


How reproducible: Just use the darn OS.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Turn on computer
2. Try to use the OS.
3. Become frustrated.
  
Actual results: 


Expected results:


Additional info: This whole linux transition is really starting to tick me off. None of the distros work as claimed.

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2011-12-07 04:48:11 UTC
That's gnome-shell and has absolutely nothing to do with kde-i18n. Reassigning.

That said, I suspect that this is a graphics driver bug, so what graphics driver are you using? If you don't know:
* Did you install any third-party graphics driver?
* If not, what graphics card/IGP are you using (so that we can identify the default driver you're likely using)?

Comment 2 pjrom007 2011-12-07 18:35:14 UTC
The bug report said to guess at what component was the issue if you didn't know- so I guessed KDE was the issue since that's what window system I selected when the live CD installed. If it did not install KDE, then that is also a bug since text was missing in the liveCD install as well.

I used the graphics drivers that were downloaded during the install.

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Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2011-12-07 19:08:59 UTC
You cannot install the KDE workspace from the "Desktop" (GNOME) live CD, you have to use the KDE live CD.

And you haven't answered this question: What graphics card/IGP are you using (so that we can identify the default driver you're likely using)? See also:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Graphical_corruption_in_GNOME_Shell_.28and_other_3D-accelerated_applications.29_with_NVIDIA_GeForce_FX_5200_adapters
which might be your issue, if that's the hardware you're using.

Comment 4 pjrom007 2011-12-08 01:18:20 UTC
The bug report said to guess at what component was the issue if you didn't know- so I guessed KDE was the issue since that's what window system I selected when the live CD installed. If it did not install KDE, then that is also a bug since text was missing in the liveCD install as well.

I used the graphics drivers that were downloaded during the install.

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Comment 5 pjrom007 2011-12-08 01:19:47 UTC
Oops- sorry about the repost. 

It appears someone mislabeled the installation disc- it says KDE but GNOME was installed. 

My apologies- the bug is the same as the one you listed.

Thank you for the help, sorry for the error.

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2011-12-08 01:51:29 UTC
FYI, if you reinstall from the actual KDE live CD, that shouldn't have this issue, because KDE Plasma Desktop defaults to not using OpenGL in Fedora 16. Xfce and LXDE should also not be affected.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 745202 ***