Font woes in Debian with latest nightly builds

20 Jan 2015

      Hi,

I recently updated from dev-1805 to dev-1924 (in both cases I used
CentOS5 installers for a Debian testing -jessie- machine; dev-1922 gave
the same problem) During installation I observed these messages:

<...>
updating fonts/local.conf file
running mkfontdir
Couldn't determine weight for Vera.pfa
Couldn't determine weight for VeraMono.pfa
rebuilding font cache
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
/usr/local/phenix-dev-1922/base/bin/fc-cache:
"/usr/local/phenix-dev-1922/base/share/fonts": skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/phenix-dev-1922/base/bin/fc-cache: succeeded
<...>

I found a previous post to this list with a similar report (january 29,
2013) but there it was said that these messages could be ignored...
However, when I run phenix I see these in the terminal:

$ phenix
Linux
/usr/local/phenix-dev-1922/build/bin/phenix: 109: [: Linux: unexpected
operator
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
Phenix data directory: /home/ortiz-lombardia/Phenix

(python2.7:11563): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically
loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:

'/home/builder/slave/phenix-nightly-intel-linux-2_6-x86_64-centos5/base/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running pango-querymodules.

(python2.7:11563): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font,
expect ugly output

(python2.7:11563): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents called
with null font argument, expect ugly output

(python2.7:11563): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_metrics called with
null font argument, expect ugly output

(python2.7:11563): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader
module file
'/home/builder/slave/phenix-nightly-intel-linux-2_6-x86_64-centos5/base/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders':
No such file or directory

(python2.7:11563): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader
module file
'/home/builder/slave/phenix-nightly-intel-linux-2_6-x86_64-centos5/base/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders':
No such file or directory

(python2.7:11563): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon for stock:
Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
'/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/status/gtk-dialog-error.png'

(python2.7:11563): Pango-WARNING **: _pango_cairo_font_install called
with bad font, expect ugly output
^C

Indeed, it is ugly output... No readable text just little empty boxes. I
can send a snapshot if required.

If I run:
dpkg -l \*pango\*

un  gir1.0-pango-1 <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  gir1.2-coglpan 1.18.2-3     amd64        GObject introspection data
for th
ii  gir1.2-pango-1 1.36.8-3     amd64        Layout and rendering of
internati
ii  libcogl-pango2 1.18.2-3     amd64        Object oriented GL/GLES
Abstracti
ii  libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3     amd64        Layout and rendering of
internati
ii  libpango-perl  1.226-2      amd64        Perl module to layout and
render
ii  libpango1.0-0: 1.36.8-3     amd64        Layout and rendering of
internati
ii  libpango1.0-de 1.36.8-3     amd64        Development files for the Pango
un  libpango1.0-do <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  libpangocairo- 1.36.8-3     amd64        Layout and rendering of
internati
ii  libpangoft2-1. 1.36.8-3     amd64        Layout and rendering of
internati
ii  libpangomm-1.4 2.34.0-1.1   amd64        C++ Wrapper for pango
(shared lib
ii  libpangox-1.0- 0.0.2-5      amd64        pango library X backend
ii  libpangox-1.0- 0.0.2-5      amd64        pango library X backend -
develop
ii  libpangoxft-1. 1.36.8-3     amd64        Layout and rendering of
internati
un  pango-graphite <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  pango1.0-multi <none>       <none>       (no description available)

Also,

dpkg -l \*fontconfig\*

produces:

ii  fontconfig     2.11.0-6.3   amd64        generic font configuration
librar
ii  fontconfig-con 2.11.0-6.3   all          generic font configuration
librar
un  libfontconfig  <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  libfontconfig- <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3   amd64        generic font configuration
librar
ii  libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3   i386         generic font configuration
librar
ii  libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3   amd64        generic font configuration
librar

I would appreciate any clues to solve this issue.

Cheers,

   Miguel

Miguel Ortiz Lombardía

irees＠lbl.gov

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