[solved] Wrong display of fonts (all square boxes now)

Hi!
I tried Infinality (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Infinality) for font-hinting a few days / weeks ago. Everything worked fine until I recently did - like every day - a
pacman -Syu
since that update my Fonts are all Squares now. Only the real standard fonts (e.g. Bitstream Vera Sans) are displayed correctly now.
Uploaded with ImageShack.us also tried already a
# pacman -S --asdeps freetype2 libxft cairo fontconfig
and I refreshed my font cache via
$ fc-cache -vf
I even followed the described command
pango-querymodules > '/etc/pango/pango.modules'
in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51316.
But none of the above mentioned worked. Would someone please be so kind and help me out?
UPDATE: Meanwhile I tried a
# pacman -Rscn gnome
and reinstalled gnome & gnome-extra. But this doesn't work either, fonts like 'Verdana' aren't displayed correctly.
UPDATE 2: After deleting my manual installed Windows 7 fonts and reloading the cache everything works fine now. I don't know why, but it works
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Last edited by chiffre (2011-05-14 17:33:18)

hacosta wrote:I highly doubt reinstalling gnome would actually do anything, since blackbox is not affected, have you tried just choosing another font in gnome's font thing
I fixed this by uninstalling gnome, all config files for pkg's removed, their dependencies, and all packages that depend on those - with the following command
pacman -Rscn gnome
This removed A LOT of packages. Then I had to reinstall gnome and my fonts were once again readable.
Before anyone tells me how stupid I was for doing that, or how there may have been a simpler theoritical solution - realize that I use my computer for work daily. I had made a few posts and wasn't getting the help I needed so I had to figure something out. I tried removing gnome and all it's packages without the '-n' option (config files), but that didn't work. So I reloaded gnome, then retried with the '-n' option and that did work.
I googled this and apparently many other people had this problem with gnome (not Arch-specific), but nobody gave any workable solutions to any of them either. Hopefully someone smarter than me can comment on the true cause of this, and maybe deduce a better solution - as I am sure some other poor sap will run into the same problem and surely come across this thread.
I appreciate everyone's input on this, and hopefully someone will chime in here with a much simpler solution that wont cause as much trouble as it did for me.
cheers.

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