Firefox 1.5 (but not firefox-bin) often renders fonts as unreadable garbage. This problem also shows itself in programs like yelp that use the firefox rendering engine. Versions prior to 1.5 of mozilla-firefox and all versions of mozilla-firefox-bin do not exhibit the bug. A screenshot of the bug is attached. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 7zip X a52 aac aalib aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl dga directfb doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif expat fam fame fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glitz glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kerberos lcms libg++ libsamplerate libwww lm_sensors lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg msql mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix python qt quicktime readline real recode sblive scanner sdl sharedmem slang sndfile sockets speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml2 xmms xpm xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 74590 [details] screenshot showing the bug
This really isn't a Mozilla bug. It actually seems to be related to anything using GTK+-2 (I have no such problems with QT applications). I can reproduce this with gkrellm2, beep-media-player, firefox-1.5 (the non-bin version), gimp, and aumix. However, I am not able to reproduce this with all apps. For example, the new nmap frontend, gftp, and mozilla-firefox-1.5-bin work fine. Furthermore, the font breakage is far from consistent. Something that looks all screwed up might fix itself if you move the window around, move a window in front of it, close a menu and then re-open it, only to jump to a different menu or part of the applications. This problem is severe enough that the affected applications are totally unusable.
Created attachment 74727 [details] aumix screenshot
Created attachment 74728 [details] beep-media-player playlist
Created attachment 74729 [details] the gimp
Created attachment 74730 [details] gkrellm2
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113123 ***
