Bug 178104 – kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r8 causes font rendering issues, reverting to kdelibs-3.5.6-r7 fixes it

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Joseph Mulloy 2007-05-11 20:32:38 UTC]

I have attached screenshots that demonstrate the issue. I don't know what changed between r7 and r8 but it messed up font rendering in KDE. All of the fonts ended up FAT. Playing around with the font configuration helped a bit but the fonts didn't look right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.6-r8
2. login after the update
3. see fat fonts

[Comment 1 Joseph Mulloy 2007-05-11 20:34:29 UTC]

Created attachment 118904 [details]
KDE with kdelibs-3.5.6-r7 (i.e. normal)

Screenshot of how KDE looked before update. This is how I like it to look. This is after reverting so the problem lies in r8.

[Comment 2 Joseph Mulloy 2007-05-11 20:35:37 UTC]

Created attachment 118906 [details]
KDE with kdelibs-3.5.6-r8 (i.e. with fat fonts)

Shows what KDE looks like after update.

[Comment 3 Joseph Mulloy 2007-05-11 20:39:40 UTC]

emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.
19-suspend2-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-suspend2-r3 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.
66GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shu
tdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms
/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch prelink sandbox sfperms str
ict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/
distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/di
stfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac aiglx alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups                                                           dbus dri dvd dvdr emboss encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstre                                                          amer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ieee1394 isdnlog java jpeg kde lame ldap libg++ mad midi                                                           mikmod mmx mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam                                                           pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 quicktime readline reflection sdl session                                                           spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1                                                           type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xscreensaver xv zlib                                                          " ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 em                                                          u10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3                                                           trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw as                                                          ym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat                                                           linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" I                                                          NPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad                                                           cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" US                                                          ERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vga vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COM                                                          PRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 4 Joseph Mulloy 2007-05-11 22:42:11 UTC]

Not sure what happened but I re installed r8 after the downgrade to r7 and it seems to work.