Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output

Question

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* l

Answer 1

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.