Bug 459374 – x11-libs/pango-1.32.5 - Broken pango.modules file

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description preston banks 2013-02-26 22:26:57 UTC]

pango.modules file is not valid, and causing rectangular characters in all the gtk apps that depend on it

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install pango-1.32.5
2. open any gtk app or gnome app that depends on pango
3. try to read the text and cannot
Actual Results:  
Rectangle boxes for characters are displayed instead of text

Expected Results:  
Readable text with pre-selected default font

I created this patch to resolve the problem on my laptop

--- /etc/pango/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/pango.modules  2013-02-26 17:20:24.626641287 -0500
+++ /home/pbanks/pango.modules        2013-02-26 17:01:00.267792505 -0500
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Automatically generated file, do not edit
 #
 /usr/lib64/pango/1.8.0/modules/pango-arabic-lang.so ArabicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone arabic:*
-/usr/lib64/pango/1.8.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so BasicScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc common:
+/usr/lib64/pango/1.8.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so BasicScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc common:*
 /usr/lib64/pango/1.8.0/modules/pango-indic-lang.so devaIndicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone devanagari:*
 /usr/lib64/pango/1.8.0/modules/pango-indic-lang.so bengIndicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone bengali:*
 /usr/lib64/pango/1.8.0/modules/pango-indic-lang.so guruIndicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone gurmukhi:*

[Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-02-27 14:43:06 UTC]

Created attachment 340340 [details]
pango.modules.patch

Attached the patch.

[Comment 2 Paul Bredbury 2013-02-27 20:06:44 UTC]

Fedora & Arch Linux compile pango with:

  --with-included-modules=basic-fc

That changes pango.modules a lot, and fixes this issue, I think.

From:
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=374053
  https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/pango

[Comment 3 Paul Bredbury 2013-03-26 06:02:15 UTC]

Also see alternate patch (which is in Ubuntu Raring) at:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58496

[Comment 4 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2013-04-30 19:11:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> pango.modules file is not valid, and causing rectangular characters in all
> the gtk apps that depend on it

I have never seen this issue and do not know how to reproduce it. Please attach the output of "emerge --info pango fontconfig libXft", explain what version of what desktop environment you are using, what default font you are using in gtk applications (dejavu, cantarell, something else?), whether you are using a non-English locale, etc.

If the application where you are seeing this problem generates error messages when you run it from the terminal, please attach them.

A screenshot would also help.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-27 11:48:59 UTC]

Also try with 1.34.1