Bug#239448: libxft2: Fails to render fonts, making GTK+ 2 and related system unusable.
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 21:15, Scott Robinson wrote:
> * Christian Guggenberger translated into ASCII [Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:08:41PM +0100][<[🔎] 1079986120.1240.4.camel@bonnie79>]
> [snap]
> > Just curious, is libxft2 (and libxft-dev) really correctly installed on
> > your system?
> > You maybe could suffer from #237509.
> >
> > check out if
> > $ apt-get install --reinstall libxft2 libxft-dev
> > helps.
> >
> > - Christian
>
> That is one of the first things I tried. No dice.
>
> Is libxft-dev required?
>
no. But IMHO the bug I referred to required it to happen.
> Do you know how to completely regenerate the font cache and metrics? I
> haven't been able to figure out how...
>
hmm, maybe
$ man fc-cache
- Christian
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