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

Verify font file permissions, especially on fonts you have installed manually, such as: out of package management scope.

Pango may fail with this error when the font is not readable by the desktop user. Example: font installed under /usr/share/fonts/..., owned by root, no others have read rights.