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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 231

Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output

I'm getting this error when starting anything that uses the Pango library. I'm using Kubuntu 9.10. I've done 'sudo apt-get --reinstall install' on libgtk* libcairo* libpango* and fontconfig, with no luck.

Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Upvotes: 23

Views: 42066

Answers (5)

Edrik
Edrik

Reputation: 31

Verify font file permissions, especially on fonts you have installed manually, such as: out of package management scope.

Pango may fail with this error when the font is not readable by the desktop user. Example: font installed under /usr/share/fonts/..., owned by root, no others have read rights.

Upvotes: 3

Gurpreet Singh
Gurpreet Singh

Reputation: 71

Make sure that font you are using with pango is installed on the machine.

Check for installed fonts in /usr/share/fonts directory.

To install new fonts try the steps mentioned in this document:

Upvotes: 0

Lawrence
Lawrence

Reputation: 10762

I ran into this on Amazon Linux, with the minimal set of X packages necessary to run vncserver, and had to install dejavu-sans-fonts and dejavu-serif-fonts.

Upvotes: 12

devnull
devnull

Reputation: 321

I did a lot of searching on this and never found a decent answer. My issue involved running virt-manager (an xwindows based utility) on a remote server. I have all the fonts on my xwindows box but not on the remote host.

the i ran 'yum install xorg-x11-font*' on the remote host everything worked fine.

Upvotes: 32

Brad
Brad

Reputation: 1

Your fonts are probably installed in /usr/X11R6/share/fonts but since pango-1.24 the fonts should be in /usr/share/fonts. The solution is to link the X11 fonts:

ln -s /usr/X11R6/share/fonts /usr/share

This should fix the problem.

Upvotes: 0

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