Weird Gnome-Terminal font issue

So i reinstalled arch yesterday and i'm having a problem with font rendering in gnome-terminal. Some letters will disappear, leaving the i-beam.
It only happens sometimes, and happened on my previous install, but i don't know what i did to fix it then.
Here's what it looks like
Not sure what's causing it. I've tried other fonts, and it still happens. Atm i'm using Droid Sans Mono and i have the ubuntu font patches. Though i was having the issue before with the lcd font patches.

Knute wrote:I was a help desk technician for many years, and learned that sometimes the best question to ask was "Is it plugged in?"
Me too.
And since most of installing arch and DE's is handled by pacman and not the installation media, it seems kind of irrelevant.
I'm thinking it has to do with compositing or Nvidia drivers.
I'm also getting some rendering problems in firefox, if i switch tabs, the tab will switch but the page will not. And i'll have to keep switching back and forth to get the tab switched.
I'm currently running kernel26-ice with the latest nvidia proprietary drivers. I guess i'll try without compiz and see how it goes...

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bch24 wrote:
Make sure the System Locale is set to utf-8 locale.
This sometimes is the issue.
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I have resolved this issue. The reason I guess is also "locale"
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VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a
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[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Starting build: 3.2.14-1-ARCH
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [resume]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-04-06 20:27] ==> Starting build: 3.2.14-1-ARCH
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [resume]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-04-06 20:27] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-04-06 20:28] upgraded linux (3.2.13-1 -> 3.2.14-1)
[2012-04-06 20:28] upgraded linux-docs (3.2.13-1 -> 3.2.14-1)
[2012-04-06 20:28] upgraded linux-headers (3.2.13-1 -> 3.2.14-1)
[2012-04-06 20:28] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-04-06 20:28] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Starting build: 3.0.27-1-lts
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [resume]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Starting build: 3.0.27-1-lts
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [resume]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-04-06 20:28] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
[2012-04-06 20:28] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-04-06 20:28] upgraded linux-lts (3.0.26-1 -> 3.0.27-1)
[2012-04-06 20:28] Exited with code 0
[2012-04-06 20:29] Exited with code 0
I'm using Terminus (TTF) in size 9 in Konsole. This hasn't been changed for quite a while.
Any suggestions on how best to troubleshoot this? Is it possible that I need to rebuild some other AUR packages associated with the infinality ones but which haven't actually been updated? Or is it likely to be to do with something else in the list?
EDIT: It only seems to be some fonts at some sizes e.g. Monaco 8pt is OK but Terminus 9pt isn't; Terminus 10pt is OK; etc.
Last edited by cfr (2012-04-07 00:18:15)

Applications/Font Book and validate your fonts.

Gnome 3.12 cannot launch gnome-terminal with sudo

I am suffering from a problem that seems similar to the thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180103 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1402702 but since they are marked solved I am opening my own.
My real problem is I use this encrypted USB stick called an ironkey. Without going into too much detail, in order to unlock the encrypted partition on it I need to run an executable on it, typically like this:
sudo /run/media/ccooper/IronKey/linux/ironkey
I am getting the error
Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 1
The ironkey launcher for some reason spawns a new terminal to ask for my passphrase, which is the problem.
I have narrowed it down to just being unable to launch gnome-terminal with sudo or as root.
So in summary, i can launch a gnome-terminal as my normal user, but not with sudo. I also cannot sudo -i and launch a gnome-terminal either.
I have run the localectl and localegen commands, as described as the "fix" but they do not help me.
# localectl
System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
VC Keymap: n/a
X11 Layout: n/a

Thanks for the reply OOO, I'm just about to open bug for gnome (did a break for lunch )
Are you still suffering from the issue?
can you please provide some details, for example your gnome version and if you have gnome-screensaver and or xscreensaver installed and or activated?
are you using GDM or lightDM?
I noticed from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME that the display manager has role in the locking/screesaver mechanism:
Note: Native support for screenlocking in GNOME is provided by GDM. If you choose to not use GDM you will need to use a different screen locking program such as XScreenSaver.
about your say for Antergos,
I would like to direct you to: distrowatch
Antergos using standart arch and AUR packages (managed by packman), I would say that Antergos is arch, just with graphical installer..
If you think that it's not arch, we can continue and argue about this fact, but I would like to concentrate on trying to understand and resolve the "blank screen" issue (that I believe is actually a gnome issue )
opened: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737256
please add your info there as well.
Thanks,
Elia.

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