As I see in the log, the Pango gui text rendering engine, can't find, or render fonts
console log: Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 9.9990234375', text='●' (gnome-appearance-properties:2959): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 3.19921875' (gnome-appearance-properties:2959): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: <unknown error status> (gnome-appearance-properties:2959): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory installed fonts: dpkg --get-selections | grep font : fontconfig install fontconfig-config install gsfonts install gsfonts-x11 install latex-xft-fonts install libfontconfig1 install libfontconfig1-dbg install libfontconfig1-dev install libfontenc1 install libxfont1 install mplayer-fonts install ttf-freefont install ttf-unifont install x-ttcidfont-conf install xfonts-100dpi install xfonts-100dpi-transcoded install xfonts-75dpi install xfonts-75dpi-transcoded install xfonts-base install xfonts-biznet-100dpi install xfonts-biznet-75dpi install xfonts-biznet-base install xfonts-encodings install xfonts-mathml install xfonts-scalable install xfonts-utils install -- gdm login fonts are unreadable, display rectangles not chars https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477438 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
