Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ttf-ancient-fonts (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2077699
Title:
Symbola Causes Java platName Nullpointer
Status in ttf-ancient-fonts package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
A few Java programs have issues with the package fonts-symbola. While
projects like Eclipse did not, and Jetbrains, Android Studio, and Netbeans did.
• It does not seem product facing but instead package facing due to trying to
run certain code even under a jshell session.
• It does not seem to come directly from a Java version due to multiple
versions being affected. 21 and 17 were used. Although user code may be
improved to work around this error, it seems a simple removal of the package
fixes the issue as shown below.
Attached are 3 crash logs in text format. Each of the different
instances fail due to font issues with fonts-symbola. The exception
Java runs into is:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke
"String.startsWith(String)" because "platName" is null
I expect that Java should not have font issues against a addition or removal
of a font, and is determined not to be by a specific product but even code
running in the jshell_crash.txt file itself which shows the cleanest
demonstration of the bug.
The following fixes the error in Java UIs:
• sudo apt purge fonts-symbola.
• sudo rm -rf /var/cache/fontconfig/ && sudo fc-cache -f -v
LSB description: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release: 24.04
Package info:
• fonts-symbola:
Installed: 2.60-1.1
Candidate: 2.60-1.1
Version table:
*** 2.60-1.1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
500 https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/ubuntu noble/universe amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: fonts-symbola 2.60-1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-41.41-generic 6.8.12
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu Aug 22 23:11:37 2024
Dependencies:
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ttf-ancient-fonts
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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