[Bug 1170172] Re: totally unreadable weird symbols instead of text in update-manager / update-notifier / ubuntu-release-upgrader

[Robert Ancell]

** Changed in: lightdm
       Status: New => Invalid

** No longer affects: lightdm

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Title:
  totally unreadable weird symbols instead of text in update-manager /
  update-notifier / ubuntu-release-upgrader

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Every so often the update-manager, update-notifier or ubuntu-release-
  upgrader normally pops up a window mentioning the latest new Ubuntu
  release. However, after installing lots of Ubuntu fonts and some
  graphite fonts, the upgrade notification popup window has stopped
  showing any text and started showing only weird symbols like boxes and
  dots, making it totally unreadable. All of the installed fonts
  installed without errors and all of them seem to be shown correctly in
  gucharmap. Other applications like gnome-terminal, gedit, konqueror
  etc are still working ok without displaying these weird symbols.

  Why are the Ubuntu release upgrade notifications suddenly being
  displayed in a weird font?

  This is update-manager 1:0.156.14.11 and update-notifier
  0.119ubuntu8.6 in Ubuntu 12.04.02 precise.

  See the sequence attached of 12 screenshots of the weird symbols in
  ubuntu-release-upgrader, showing an attempt to copy-select the lines
  of symbols in the popup window.

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