Okay. That experimental.refresh-app-awareness did not fix it. This morning (16 March), while switching tabs, the font "change" occurred visibly again. Apparently I'm not looking at a fresh Chromium. Yet still there is _something_ that messed up the fonts.
Here's some system info: $ snap list --all chromium Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes chromium 98.0.4758.9 1868 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 96.0.4664.110 1854 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 98.0.4758.54 1873 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 97.0.4692.99 1878 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 98.0.4758.80 1895 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 98.0.4758.80 1899 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 98.0.4758.102 1912 latest/stable canonical✓ disabled chromium 99.0.4844.51 1926 latest/stable canonical✓ - Running processes and start-time: $ ps -ho lstart,command -p $(pgrep -f chromium | tr '\n' , | sed -e 's/,$//') | awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $6 " " $7}' | uniq -c 1 Feb 11 /snap/chromium/1899/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --password-store 3 Feb 11 /snap/chromium/1899/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=zygote 1 Mar 7 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --password-store 3 Mar 7 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=zygote 1 Mar 7 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=gpu-process 2 Mar 7 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=utility 4 Mar 7 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer 1 Mar 8 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=utility 1 Mar 8 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer 1 Mar 9 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer 1 Mar 14 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer 34 Mar 15 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer 1 Mar 15 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=utility 2 Mar 15 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer So, apparently there _are_ two chromiums running at the same time. Not sure why, but that might explain conflicts. The old one was branched off a --password-store parent. Looking at the age in the fontconfig dir: $ ls /var/snap/chromium/common/fontconfig/ -ltr total 1700 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 151 mrt 2 15:39 fonts.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 408 mrt 2 15:39 34e0e5ac-5c62-4453-a219-f92185a510d1-le64.cache-7 ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104 mrt 2 15:39 34e3ea57-0766-47d7-ac34-3152aff3ab1c-le64.cache-7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 mrt 2 15:39 2bdf00a0-773f-43e6-bc52-f8023b64a749-le64.cache-7 So, all files are from the same date and not recently changed or something. Steps I did now: - $ sudo rm /var/snap/chromium/common/fontconfig/* - fonts were still bad - stopping chromium (alt-4) - observe how the old chromium is still running: $ ps -ho lstart,command -p $(pgrep -f chromium | tr '\n' , | sed -e 's/,$//') | awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $6 " " $7}' | uniq -c 1 Feb 11 /snap/chromium/1899/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --password-store 3 Feb 11 /snap/chromium/1899/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=zygote - start chromium again - fonts are good again I'm killing off the old chromium/1899 now: $ kill 965195 965392 965393 965395 (Where the parent 965195 refuses to die without SIGKILL.) Restarted chromium again, for good measure. $ ps -ho lstart,command -p $(pgrep -f chromium | tr '\n' , | sed -e 's/,$//') | awk '{print $2 " " $3 " " $6 " " $7}' | uniq -c 1 Mar 16 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --password-store 3 Mar 16 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=zygote 1 Mar 16 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=gpu-process 2 Mar 16 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=utility 9 Mar 16 /snap/chromium/1926/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome --type=renderer Observe that the fontconfig directory is empty at this point (even though chromium has started twice after purging it). Now wait for the issue to reappear... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1954980 Title: [snap] Chromium showing Japanese fonts incorrectly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1954980/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs