[mythtv-users] Very strange - all fonts are now square boxes...

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 22:26:16 UTC 2009


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   OK - this one is strange. All my theme fonts are now just square,
> unfilled boxes..
>
>   Background:
>
> 1) I have three identical Pundit-R machines. I use two as frontends
> and keep the 3rd as a spare.
>
> 2) One of the frontends has a problem so I updated the spare to be
> completely up-to-date as per Gentoo stable, so it's 0.21.
>
> 3) When the updates completed mythfrontend runs fine on the spare but
> all the theme fonts are just unfilled square boxes!
>
>   OK, so I've still got one machine working correctly, but it's a
> little out of date so I decide to update it. In the process of working
> out some small differences between the two machine I note that the
> working machine has no locales. For some reason I decide to give it
> the same locales as the spare machine as I update the last 10 or so
> packages. Now the working machine is completely up-to-date, just like
> the spare machine. When I reboot that machine and let mythfrontend
> start normally guess what happens? You got it - no fonts in the theme.
>
>   Up until the time Myth actually starts I see all the typical
> console fonts. Those are fine. It's only after mythfrontend starts
> that I can see it has no fonts.
>
>   Does Myth have some requirements about using or not using locales?
> Are the fonts carried in the theme itself or are they from an external
> package that possibly I took off the system without knowing?
>
>   Why don't I have any fonts?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

NOTE: If it matters mythfrontend is actually working fine - I can
watch programs even if I cannot read what they are.

INTERESTING: Once the video is up and running I do have OSD fonts so
it's only theme fonts that don't work. At this point I can read info
on the program, etc., to tell what I'm watching.

Also, I tried erasing the themecache directory and letting Myth
recreate it but that didn't help. I also re-emerged mythtv-themes but
that didn't help either.

Off to see a Christmas concert played almost completely on bagpipes -
my annual and unofficial start the to holiday season. Back in a few
hours.

Cheers,
Mark


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