Re: Gnome display fonts have disappered

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

A. Lester Buck III wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a bit of corruption appear on the system disk for my Debian
> testing system.  The file systems all check fine now, but the Gnome
> display shows no text fonts.  Everything else is fine, I can login (it
> doesn't show my username as I type), and as I mouse over the menu bars,
> various tooltips light up as normal.  I can lauch applications, but
> everything is lacking the text labels and menus.  Would anyone have an
> idea how I might reinstall the Gnome system fonts or otherwise correct
> or debug this issue?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Lester

Try dpkg-query -l|grep fonts and then reinstall all the packages that 
have 'font' in their name.

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