I just downloaded v0.16 and installed it on the bare hardware using the minimal desktop configuration (the one whose example includes `ratpoison').
After `guix package -i icecat', running it will show boxes as reported by the OP. I confirm that OP's solution of `guix package -i font-gnu-freefont-ttf' fixes this problem. Can't this be fixed at its root, please? It has been two months. Thank you. -- Best regards, Tadeus
