upgrading Cantarell causes visual glitches in GNOME Shell until restarted
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fonts-cantarell (Debian) |
Confirmed
|
Unknown
|
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| fonts-cantarell (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Upgrading fonts-cantarell may cause visual glitches in GNOME Shell. You need to restart your computer after upgrading this font.
Original Bug Report
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Hello,
On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with unattended upgrades, using gnome3 as desktop environment, I have just witnessed the following problem :
- The upgrade to the latest release occurred a few minutes ago :
$ tail /var/log/
[...]
Start-Date: 2016-07-08 11:10:07
Commandline: /usr/bin/
Upgrade: fonts-cantarell
End-Date: 2016-07-08 11:10:15
- Instantly, all characters in the top bar (open windows, date, dropdown menus) have been replaced by small solid rectangles (sorry, did not think of capturing a screenshot). If important : language is french (locale : fr_FR.UTF-8)
- Logging out from my gnome3 session, and then logging back in fixes the problem.
I would have expected the font package upgrade to go more smoothly (possibly refresh the gnome3 interface at the end of the process ?)
Thanks for your efforts,
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in fonts-cantarell (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Frédéric Meynadier (frederic-meynadier-b) wrote | #2 |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #3 |
| summary: |
- upgrading package causes interface text to be replaced by squares + upgrading font causes interface text to be replaced by squares |
| summary: |
- upgrading font causes interface text to be replaced by squares + upgrading Cantarell causes visual glitches in GNOME Shell until + restarted |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in fonts-cantarell (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| no longer affects: | ubuntu-gnome |
| Nikolaus Waxweiler (madleser) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in fonts-cantarell (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
While I did not experience this bug, another user did:
comment #6 on bug 1592833
The fonts are not updated very often in stable Ubuntu releases so maybe you won't experience this bug again in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.