Bug 213367 - Gibberish corrupted font / fonts in Pirut after yum upgrade from fc5 to fc6
Summary: Gibberish corrupted font / fonts in Pirut after yum upgrade from fc5 to fc6
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fontconfig
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-01 05:33 UTC by Bennett Feitell
Modified: 2008-05-06 16:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:39:01 UTC
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Description Bennett Feitell 2006-11-01 05:33:12 UTC
Description of problem:
Pirut requires dejavu-fonts to display correctly.  dejavu-fonts.noarch is not
installed automatically when pirut is installed (dejavu-fonts are not an rpm
requirement for pirut).  The result is a corrupted font display (I got wingdings
or typographical symbols) depending upon what fonts are available.

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


How reproducible:
This is the result of a yum upgrade from fc5->fc6.  This probably gets taken
care of by anaconda on a disk based upgrade.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upgrade a stripped down console onllly FC5 install to FC6 then install pirut.
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
I ended up with gibberish fonts in Pirut until dejavu-fonts.noarch was installed.

Expected results:
Normal readable fonts in pirut.

Additional info:
I have marked this as a low severity bug.  Perhaps pirut should require the
default dejavu-fonts.noarch package.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-11-03 18:53:07 UTC
I believe this is more a side effect of the changes with the default fontconfig
then an inherent dep in pirut.

Comment 2 Bennett Feitell 2006-11-03 21:52:46 UTC
I think you are probably correct.  Several consequent yum upgrades of other FC5
systems proceeded without incident.  The machine in question had a highly
stripped configuration resulting in the odd corner case behavior I witnessed. 
Thanks for following up on this so quickly.

Comment 3 Bennett Feitell 2006-11-03 21:53:49 UTC
That should probably read subsequent rather than consequent, oops.

Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-11-06 22:32:03 UTC
You shouldn't get gibberish anyway, even if the default font is not installed. 
We can always find a font that has Latin glyphs.  The only possibility is that
you have seriously-broken fonts installed that advertise symbols as Latin glyphs.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:19:18 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:38:57 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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