Lost ability to display truetype fonts

[johannlo]

For some reason I am no longer able to use truetype fonts (tahoma, verdana, arial etc.) in gnome.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the msttcorefonts-2.0-1 rpm package as well as manually copied the files over to the .fonts directory. I have also restarted xfs.

The funny thing is, I can select the fonts in preferences and they show up correctly in that dialog, but as soon as I apply them, I just get rectangles in place of characters.

The issue started when I issued chmod644 and then chmod744 commands on my home directory, not sure why this has anything to do with it as it hasn't removed any permissions...

[leigh123linux]

Try updating the font cache


fc-cache -v -f
su -
fc-cache -v -f

[johannlo]

another restart fixed it, not sure why previous restarts didn't... thanks anyway, will keep in mind for next time!