[SOLVED] Squares instead of words

[yankee495]

I'm sure sorry Roy, I don't know. If you have all of the media enabled and updated it seems like it should work. I've seen so many not do the update after an upgrade, you know, urpmi --auto-update...it sure is nice when that fixes things. I seen the other thread and he hasn't replied so we don't learn much there.

If you don't have important stuff to worry about I'd do a new install. I like knowing what the problem was but you may waste a lot of time when a re-install would have you up and running. Then again, if it came up the same way...

Also, the MD5 will verify the downloaded ISO, but you have to make sure the burned copy also matches. One single bit is all it takes. If it is in the middle of a wallpaper you're ok, if it is in a program, not so much.

[doktor5000]

Actually I am not the only one having this same problem user viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7003 has the same close problem. I believe it is pango that is the problem. I am not verse enough to resolve pango on my own

That was not his core problem in that thread, and he mentioned he resolved it via running

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pango-querymodules-32 --update-cache

Did you try that?

[akbrian]

I had the same problem, but was in a hurry (paying by the hour at a internet cafe) so I'm embarrassed to say that I just did a fresh install keeping my home partition intact instead of digging very deep. Launching either MCC or Google Chrome from console showed a pango problem, it appeared to be some kind of circular dependency in the earlier pango version that prevented a successful upgrade of pango. Mate and Gnome were unusable, KDE was not too bad. My "gut" feeling at the time was it was related to GTK upgrade issues. I used the 64bit DVD on USB and added a full set of FTP sources during the upgrade. The botched upgrade took many times longer than a fresh install.

[RoyD]

Hi Doktor5000
I did try

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pango-querymodules-32 --update-cache

and nothing happened.
Dont worry I will just do a full install.
Cheers Roy

[akbrian]

Remember that you need to choose the "custom partitioning" option and then choose your existing partitions as the same mount points they are now, but only format /home (and /boot if you have a separate boot partition). Use the same usernames and enter them in the same or order as in the current install, or better yet is to make note of you assigned user (and group) number for each user prior to upgrading, then choose the option to manually assign them during the upgrade (advanced option?).