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FS#22665 - [chromium] fonts missing from depends

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gergely (imrehg) - Sunday, 30 January 2011, 11:16 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Friday, 04 February 2011, 22:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
After installing chromium (on a new and almost bare system), it won't run because of missing fonts:
[2104:2104:499098243:FATAL:gfx/platform_font_gtk.cc(296)] Check failed: typeface. Could not find any font: Helvetica, sans

Additional info:
* chromium 8.0.552.237-1

Steps to reproduce:
(* newly installed system, xfce4)
* install chromium
* first run: choose search engine, after that it crashes with the above message
* subsequent runs: crash

Fixed it by installing a font package (ttf-dejavu, because that was the one I recognized in the font packages names).
I think there should be "depends" or a post-install note about installing fonts. Otherwise I wasn't sure what package to install to get the appropriate fonts for this to work.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Friday, 04 February 2011, 22:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 30 January 2011, 11:58 GMT
in my opinion this comes to often in the bugtracker and clearly we are doing a crappy job with this.

we should add ttf-dejavu to depends

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