I'm getting this error when starting anything that uses the Pango library. I'm using Kubuntu 9.10. I've done 'sudo apt-get --reinstall install' on libgtk* libcairo* libpango* and fontconfig, with no luck.
Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
I did a lot of searching on this and never found a decent answer. My issue involved running virt-manager (an xwindows based utility) on a remote server. I have all the fonts on my xwindows box but not on the remote host.
the i ran 'yum install xorg-x11-font*' on the remote host everything worked fine.
I ran into this on Amazon Linux, with the minimal set of X packages necessary to run vncserver, and had to install dejavu-sans-fonts and dejavu-serif-fonts.
Verify font file permissions, especially on fonts you have installed manually, such as: out of package management scope.
Pango may fail with this error when the font is not readable by the desktop user. Example: font installed under /usr/share/fonts/..., owned by root, no others have read rights.
Your fonts are probably installed in /usr/X11R6/share/fonts but since pango-1.24 the fonts should be in /usr/share/fonts. The solution is to link the X11 fonts:
ln -s /usr/X11R6/share/fonts /usr/share
This should fix the problem.
Make sure that font you are using with pango is installed on the machine.
Check for installed fonts in /usr/share/fonts directory.
To install new fonts try the steps mentioned in this document:
