Fonts broken after Firefox download

[frazelle09]

Don't know what happened but can't use my old browser, Opera, nor my lmail program, which looks like Thunderbird.

When i run lmail from the terminal i get...

nsKDERegistry::Startup

(lmail-bin:9450): Pango-WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font Bitstream Vera Sans 10

(lmail-bin:9450): Pango-WARNING **: Cannot open fallback font, nothing to do

Sometimes even Firefox has a hard time opening.

Opera runs fine as sudo. ???? but when i run it as regular user, i get something like the above font messages, which is... couldn't open fontconfigs chosen font with Xft!!!

Have a great evening!

[ImNeat]

This error started after installing Firefox? How did you install Firefox (CNR, apt-get, .deb)?

Also, are you sure you have those fonts installed? Try installing one of the free font packages through CNR.

[frazelle09]

Thanks ImNeat! Will see what i can download, although i don't have the foggiest idea about what would be good...

My Krusader search reveals that i seem to have all kinds of Bitstream Vera fonts so ???

Have downloaded x-fonts scalable. i guess they're free, i didn't see any price tag on them and wasn't taken to some sort of Check Out...

Click Thunder Mail Client icon on Desktop -- no go. Nada.

Sigh. Have a great evening!

[frazelle09]

Thought i'd include this printout of locate command... Maybe it might help.

frazelle09@LaGrandota:~$ locate bitstream
locate: warning: database `/var/cache/locate/locatedb' is more than 8 days old
/etc/defoma/hints/ttf-bitstream-vera.hints
/etc/X11/fonts/TrueType/bitstream-fonts.scale
/usr/share/bug/ttf-bitstream-vera
/usr/share/bug/ttf-bitstream-vera/presubj
/usr/share/bug/ttf-bitstream-vera/script
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera/COPYRIGHT.FAQ
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera/README.TXT
/usr/share/doc/ttf-bitstream-vera/RELEASENOTES.TXT.gz
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Fontmap
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/fonts.cache-1
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/fonts.dir
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/fonts.scale
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraIt.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoBd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoBI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoIt.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraSeBd.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraSe.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bitstream-fonts.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bitstream-fonts.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bitstream-fonts.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bitstream-fonts.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/bitstream-fonts.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-bitstream-vera.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-bitstream-vera.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-bitstream-vera.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-bitstream-vera.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-bitstream-vera.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-bitstream-vera.prerm


Have a great evening!