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Description of problem: When running virt-manager over a remote X11 display, all the text in the window shows up as boxes instead of letters if the Type1 fonts aren't installed.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.8.4-8.el6.noarch
How reproducible: 100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a clean RHEL 6 system, but don't install xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
2. Run virt-manager over a remote X11 connection
Actual results: you'll see boxes instead of letters, making virt-manager unusable
Expected results: to be able to read the text in the window
Additional info: see https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2010-December/msg00021.html. Probably missing an RPM dependency on xorg-x11-fonts-Type1.
Comment 2RHEL Program Management
2011-05-12 06:00:57 UTC
Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains
unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as
exception or blocker.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the
next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
virt-manager shouldn't need to have a dependency on a basic package like that. I'm not really sure where the dependency should be though.
Can you explain how you installed the remote box? possibly provide the kickstart from /root . This might be a comps issue, so reassigning there
(In reply to RHEL Product and Program Management from comment #7)
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I ran across this same issue with a minimal install of RHEL7, then installing qemu-kvm, qemu-img, virt-manager & xorg-x11-xauth. I find the suggestion to install the entire font group distasteful due to the desire to keep a server as minimal as possible. It appears virt-manager only needs the dejavu-sans-fonts package out of the ~40 or so that get installed from the @fonts group.
There is 69,200 results when searching Google for "virt-manager font boxes", so a lot of people are hitting this problem. It seems to me that adding dejavu-sans-fonts as a dependency would be a simple and straight forward fix.
Can you help me understand the reluctance to adding that dependency? Thank you.