FC4 cairo/pango update + firefox = no fonts in firefox?

rickyb · #1 23rd June 2005, 10:34 AM

I recently updated to the following rawhide/FC5 packages and voila .. no more text/fonts in firefox (must be cairo/pango - or something?). Anybody else experienced this?

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arts-1.4.1-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:39:56 PM SGT
authconfig-4.6.13-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:40:42 PM SGT
audit-libs-0.9.11-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:40:47 PM SGT
arts-devel-1.4.1-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:40:49 PM SGT
authconfig-gtk-4.6.13-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:40:52 PM SGT
audit-0.9.11-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:40:54 PM SGT
cryptix-3.2.0-4jpp_2fc Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:51:09 PM SGT
glibc-common-2.3.5-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:51:39 PM SGT
glibc-2.3.5-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:53:14 PM SGT
glibc-headers-2.3.5-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:55:11 PM SGT
gjdoc-0.7.5-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:55:32 PM SGT
cryptix-asn1-20011119-4jpp_2fc Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:55:34 PM SGT
glibc-devel-2.3.5-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 01:55:37 PM SGT
libpixman-0.1.5-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:21:07 PM SGT
cairo-0.5.1-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:21:10 PM SGT
pango-1.9.0-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:21:11 PM SGT
gtk2-2.7.0-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:21:20 PM SGT
pango-devel-1.9.0-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:21:27 PM SGT
iiimf-libs-12.2-6 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:21:29 PM SGT
kdelibs-3.4.1-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:22:04 PM SGT
cairo-devel-0.5.1-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:22:41 PM SGT
isdn4k-utils-3.2-29 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:22:46 PM SGT
iiimf-libs-devel-12.2-6 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:22:53 PM SGT
gtk2-devel-2.7.0-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:23:00 PM SGT
kdelibs-devel-3.4.1-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 02:24:10 PM SGT
netpbm-10.28-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:29:59 PM SGT
libmng-1.0.9-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:35 PM SGT
poppler-0.3.3-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:36 PM SGT
slocate-2.7-24 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:37 PM SGT
net-tools-1.60-54 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:40 PM SGT
xsane-0.95-4 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:44 PM SGT
selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.18-15 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:50 PM SGT
libpcap-0.8.3-14 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:52 PM SGT
netpbm-progs-10.28-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:30:58 PM SGT
libmng-devel-1.0.9-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:13 PM SGT
tmpwatch-2.9.4-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:14 PM SGT
vnc-server-4.1.1-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:15 PM SGT
xsane-gimp-0.95-4 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:18 PM SGT
netpbm-devel-10.28-2 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:20 PM SGT
nscd-2.3.5-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:20 PM SGT
setup-2.5.46-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:21 PM SGT
tcpdump-3.8.2-14 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:22 PM SGT
vnc-4.1.1-11 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:23 PM SGT
sudo-1.6.8p9-1 Thu 23 Jun 2005 03:31:36 PM SGT

drpt · #2 23rd June 2005, 07:37 PM

yep. same here

fromans4 · #3 23rd June 2005, 09:23 PM

I just did the same update last night and ended up with the same results!

Has anyone figured out how to fix this yet?

Brent

SlowJet · #4 23rd June 2005, 10:47 PM

I think my FC5 devel system is toast.

I'm running the ubuntu 5.0.4 Live CD for the time being.

Seems to have fixed it fine.

SJ

rickyb · #5 24th June 2005, 01:29 AM

I rebuilt firefox using the how-to in Thomas' fedoranews.org page @ http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/. Firefox seems to behave the way it should be for now - or at least with fonts showing. Too early to tell really. Anybody else find anything?

drpt · #6 24th June 2005, 05:02 AM

works well, I did the same but considering that firefox was pooched already, I built the rpm package with 1.0.5 http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozill...6-aviary1.0.1/

seems ok so far

SlowJet · #7 24th June 2005, 07:49 PM

I caved. I got bored with only e-mail running. lol Looks like the current build may have helped but no garentee.
Installing FC4 (everything) was a piece of cake compared to the devel seesaw. But it fun while it lasted.
I may pick it up at FC5T2.

I see they fixed the WORKGROUP dhcp problem in FC4, after the fact, but seems to be working.
I have samba, cups, e-mail, and sendmail for root (it sent a message to the term in the middle of yum update and knocked off yum. Imagine that. But another yum update zipped through until it got back to where it was. )

Yumm update was very impressive, 135 updates, 3 mirros blew off and it continued on others.
Got a slow one ( I mean really slow) so I hit Ctrl-c, it went looking for another mirror.
Nothing stopped it from working, the KDE-i18N- language packs are a pain. There is no off swith for these in the add / remove program.

I've reset the test-mail-list to batch and it's time to start screwing up this install.

SJ

alphonsebrown · #8 26th June 2005, 12:35 PM

what's that test-mail-list for?

TranceDude · #9 17th August 2005, 03:31 PM

hi

can anybody tell me the solution for the firefox no fonts problem?
I have the same problem but i can't solve it (it is also this way in thunderbird)

i hope somebody can help me!
thx

rickyb · #10 21st August 2005, 07:57 AM

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I rebuilt firefox using the how-to in Thomas' fedoranews.org page @ http://fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox/. Firefox seems to behave the way it should for now - or at least with fonts showing. Too early to tell really. Anybody else find anything?

trancedude, try this... last time I was running rawhide, this did the trick for me... I'm back to *mainstream* FC4 for now...

RahulSundaram · #11 22nd August 2005, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by TranceDude

hi

can anybody tell me the solution for the firefox no fonts problem?
I have the same problem but i can't solve it (it is also this way in thunderbird)

i hope somebody can help me!
thx

If you are using rawhide, subscribe to the fedora-test-list and fedora-devel-list. The problem and solutions were discussed in these lists

This should have been fixed in the latest update

Rahul
Red Hat Inc

TranceDude · #12 23rd August 2005, 04:28 PM

hi

sorry i'm just a beginner, but what does "rawhide" means?

I really don't understand what you mean, because I'm just beginning to learn linux

thx

RahulSundaram · #13 23rd August 2005, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TranceDude

hi

sorry i'm just a beginner, but what does "rawhide" means?

I really don't understand what you mean, because I'm just beginning to learn linux

thx

The development tree is called rawhide. Beginners shouldnt be using the development versions

Rahul
Red Hat Inc

klazzik · #14 24th August 2005, 01:12 AM

The problem was that current stable version of firefox build for fedora has pango enabled. older versions of pango used XFT for fonts rendering while the newest pango use cairo for fonts rendering. You can disable pango in firefox by editting and uncommenting these lines in your /usr/bin/firefox file.

##
## Set MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO is no longer used because Pango is enabled by default
## you may use MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 to force disabling of pango
##
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO

I hope this help.

alphonsebrown · #15 24th August 2005, 08:53 AM

this is great help, but actually I don't have cairo, nor pango - and it wouldn't install, no time to figure out why, but I don't have any problem with the fonts? what happens at your desktop firefox's fonts exactly?