Opened 17 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#401 closed defect (worksforme)
Font Tahoma, Ubuntu 7.04 Kernel 2.6.20-16-generic on ASUS Pundit/64bit x2 Athlon
| Reported by: | wittifred | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 1.4.0 |
| Keywords: | Tahoma, "Segmentation fault" | Cc: | sven@… |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
After installing msttcorefonts and manually copying an unaltered tahoma/tahoma-bold set from xp to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts and running dkpg-reconfigure fontconfig, I wanted to use Tahoma as major general system font. Afterwards, the VirtualBox graphical interface fails to load. The interface seems like derived from Windows/ QT3 and it looks like it is using Tahoma internally and thus producing a conflict which leads to the error message that fails to load the interface: "Segmentation fault (Core dumped)"
After deleting the tahoma-set from said folder, and running dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, GDM seems to use the standard "Sans" as a substitute setting for Tahoma and all works fine.
I havent checked with other settings though (e.g. Verdana as font for everything in gdm). Its not so nice, because tahoma is very good for interface lettering.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
I don't think that this is a bug in VirtualBox, sounds more like a bug in Qt, perhaps a buggy release of your Linux distribution. Though you might consider updating VirtualBox to the latest version.
After installing msttcorefonts and manually copying an unaltered tahoma/tahoma-bold set from xp to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts and running dkpg-reconfigure fontconfig, I wanted to use Tahoma as major general system font. Afterwards, the VirtualBox graphical interface fails to load. The interface seems like derived from Windows/ QT3 and it looks like it is using Tahoma internally and thus producing a conflict which leads to the error message that fails to load the interface: "Segmentation fault (Core dumped)"
After deleting the tahoma-set from said folder, and running dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig, GDM seems to use the standard "Sans" as a substitute setting for Tahoma and all works fine.
I havent checked with other settings though (e.g. Verdana as font for everything in gdm). Its not so nice, because tahoma is very good for interface lettering.
N.P.: I had Beryl, which I wanted to check out also installed, when the problem first occured. I uninstalled Beryl, but the error seems independent of beryl and seems to be in the adaption transformation that ubuntu does when running apt-get instal msttcorefonts. So the adapted "Verdana" set works.