[Bug 2039213] Re: Strange fonts appear on the dist-upgrade window

[Nick Rosbrook]

This is basically a duplicate of bug 2034986, but the reason the fix
doesn't work for you is that you invoke the upgrade directly as root via
sudo, which means some environment variables that are needed are not
preserved in the upgrade process. Note that the upgrader will invoke the
necessary part of the script with root privileges itself (it which point
you would be prompted to authenticate), so it's preferred that you just
call e.g. `update-manager -d`, not `sudo update-manager -d`.

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Title:
  Strange fonts appear on the dist-upgrade window

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This morning, 10/12, I began the process of upgrading from 23.04 to
  23.10. The process went smoothly, but somewhere along the way the
  fonts got all weird and I had to "guess" what buttons to click to
  proceed. I have screenshots.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.10.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-9.9-generic 6.5.3
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-9-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CrashReports:
   644:1000:1000:0:2023-10-12 09:40:21.097162624 -0400:2023-10-12 09:40:21.097162624 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_alacarte.1000.upload
   600:112:117:5:2023-10-12 12:40:20.686649792 -0400:2023-10-12 09:40:21.149163152 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_alacarte.1000.uploaded
   640:1000:1000:103967:2023-10-12 09:40:21.097162624 -0400:2023-10-12 09:40:17.581127022 -0400:/var/crash/_usr_bin_alacarte.1000.crash
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Oct 12 14:41:51 2023
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-19 (1393 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: dist-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-10-12 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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