KFormula cannot find the math fonts, and hence cannot render font based symbols (e.g. anything Greek). Non-font stuff like radical/parens is fine, as is all else. When started from a terminal, a warning is made on stderr, "Cannot find math fonts". I have strace'd the process, and it sucessfully stats the math fonts in /usr/share/apps/kformula. There is an strace log (big!) at the URL above. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start KFormula 2.Insert a Sigma symbol 3.Look at screen Actual Results: Inserted a non-English character I can't recognize. To see it exactly, look at the URL above. Expected Results: Insert the Greek Sigma. Portage 2.0.47-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 3dnow avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline arts svga java guile sdl gpm pam libwww ssl python oggvorbis qt kde motif opengl X alsa acpi cdr dga dvd ggi imap jikes maildir perl pic plotutils ruby samba sasl sse tcktk tetex tiff usb wmf -apm -gtk -gnome -esd -oss -cups -fbcon -nls -slang -imlib -tcpd" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" I'm using KDE3.1 ebuilds. No other part of KDE is giving me trouble. The only non-stable programs I have are gprolog and ispell. I am building KOffice on a similar machine and hope to test for the same bug on the morrow. I would be happy to recompile KOffice with debugging symbols and work closely with a developer if need be. The KFormula site has no bug information, and bugs.kde.org comes up with nothing relevent on a search for KFormula.
I'm very sorry your report hasn't been processed before... This is still mainly to acknowledge that "we're here", I'm afraid... Meanwhile, you might try the new koffice 1.3_beta1 to see if it's fixed there, so we could try to locate the bugfix and possibly backport it. (On first sight it seems the 1.3b1 kformula doesn't install any fonts all...) 1.3b1 it's still too unstable for general use, though...
Closing now that 1.3 is almost stable. If this persists in 1.3 versions please file a new report.
