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

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Andrew picture Andrew · Apr 2, 2010 · Viewed 36.8k times · Source

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.

Answer

devnull picture devnull · Apr 28, 2011

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.

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