Package: fontconfig Version: 2.11.0-6.4 Severity: serious User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
For many months now, I have experienced myself and I have received dozens of reports (on the Kali side) of users having squares instead of the expected characters in their GNOME setup. The work-around was to run "apt --reinstall install fonts-cantarell" and I suspected that it was related to some bad update of the font-config cache, and this has been now confirmed: https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2016/06/fixing-firefox-fonts.html The above page shows an invocation of "fc-list" returning many entries for files such as /usr/share/fonts/opentype/cantarell/Cantarell-Regular.otf.dpkg-tmp Those files exist only during unpack of a package and they should not be grabbed. So please make sure that the fontconfig cache update ignores any .dpkg-tmp file... Still I wonder how this is even possible as when the fontconfig trigger runs, the packages are fully unpacked and those files should have been already insalled under their final name. Maybe GNOME has some inotify thing in place to update the cache dynamically? In any case, ignoring those files at the fontconfig level should fix this issue I believe. Sample reports on the Kali side: https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3376 https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3148 https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=3293 -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages fontconfig depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.7 ii fontconfig-config 2.11.0-6.4 ii libc6 2.22-11 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.4 ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b1 fontconfig recommends no packages. fontconfig suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
