Strange behaviour on Noto fonts.

[EmmanuelCharpentier]

Setup :

Debian testing, font-manager part of Gnome's standard installation. Among fonts :

charpent@zen-book-flip:~$ dpkg -l "*noto*"
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
| État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé/W=att>
|/ Err?=(aucune)/besoin Réinstallation (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais)
||/ Nom                    Version      Architecture Description
+++-======================-============-============-==========================>
un  fonts-noto             <aucune>     <aucune>     (aucune description n'est >
un  fonts-noto-cjk-extra   <aucune>     <aucune>     (aucune description n'est >
ii  fonts-noto-color-emoji 2.047-1      all          color emoji font from Goog>
ii  fonts-noto-core        20201225-2   all          "No Tofu" font families wi>
ii  fonts-noto-extra       20201225-2   all          "No Tofu" font families wi>
rc  fonts-noto-hinted      20181227-1   all          obsolete metapackage to pu>
ii  fonts-noto-mono        20201225-2   all          "No Tofu" monospaced font >
ii  fonts-noto-ui-core     20201225-2   all          "No Tofu" font families wi>
un  fonts-noto-unhinted    <aucune>     <aucune>     (aucune description n'est >

Symptoms :

Various problems when trying to enable/disable some of the Noto fonts (extremely long time of unresponsivity after enabling one font, failure to disable a group of fonts, etc...

When staring font-manager from the command line, I see this :

charpent@zen-book-flip:~$ font-manager 

(font-manager:1657725): [font-manager]-CRITICAL **: 06:10:11.484: font_manager_get_matching_families_and_fonts: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed

(font-manager:1657725): [font-manager]-WARNING **: 06:10:11.484: Disabled.vala:46: Database Error : (SELECT DISTINCT family, description FROM Fonts WHERE family=""Noto";) [1] - near "Noto": syntax error

These two errors appear repeatedly after attempts to act on Noto fonts.

Another (possibly related) problem is that I cannot list the variants of these fonts by clicking on the "right arrowhead" in the list of fonts.

Deleting a spurious ~/.local/share/fonts/Google\ Fonts/ directory which used to contain (a second copy of) Noto\ Sans\ Math/Noto_Sans_Math-Regular.15.ttf (predating my installation of Debian's font-noto-core package) and regenerating both user and system caches with fc-cache -rv didn't fix the problem.

System Information

• OS: Debian testing, as of 2024-12-24
• Desktop Environment : GNOME/.
• Font Manager version : as packaged in Devian's font-manager package 0.9.0-5
• Font Manager installation method : Debian's apt fools.

[JerryCasiano]

Looks like it might be related to #395

Not sure where our database queries are getting mangled but starting to suspect locale issues.

Can you post the output from locale on your system please.

[EmmanuelCharpentier]

Can you post the output from locale on your system please.

charpent@zen-book-flip:~$ locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
charpent@zen-book-flip:~$ 

HTH,

[JerryCasiano]

Nah. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be related to locale settings.

Another user with similar issues has system set to US English.

Back to the drawing board...