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

I ran into this on Amazon Linux, with the minimal set of X packages necessary to run vncserver, and had to install dejavu-sans-fonts and dejavu-serif-fonts.