[Bug 2034986] Re: some text became unreadable during a distribution upgrade

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-09-26 22:32, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> But one of the changes in mantic is that no font is safely present
> (i.e. the default ones are "Recommends:" only). So later, when people
> will upgrade from 23.10 to 24.04, just using "Sans" temporarily may
> not be the best option. And changing it to a specific font family is
> tricky, since we don't know if the user has uninstalled some of the
> default font packages.
> 
> So my thought is: Can this be a reason to let desktop-common depend
> on, and not only recommend, some font package after all? And if so,
> which package would be suitable for the purpose?

To make it easier to keep 'the temporary font' approach in 24.04 — if
that is what we want by then — I added a hard dependency on fonts-
dejavu-core to desktop-common. No upstream changes to the DejaVu fonts
have been made the last 6 years, so it's more or less unmaintained,
which in this context is an advantage.

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Mantic)
       Status: Confirmed => In Progress

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Mantic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  some text became unreadable during a distribution upgrade

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Mantic:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Mantic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I was upgrading from Lunar to Mantic the other day and left a couple
  of applications open during the upgrade process. During the upgrade
  the text in audacious became unreadable (I'll attach a screenshot) and
  I seem to recall the title bar of Firefox being unreadable but the
  contents of web pages still being readable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:23.10.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-4.4-generic 6.5.0
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-4-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia zfs
  ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Sep  8 15:39:27 2023
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-10 (1855 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-09-06 (2 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz: Error: command ['pkexec', 'cat', '/var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz'] failed with exit code 126: Error executing command as another user: Request dismissed
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.meta-release: 2021-05-27T16:30:16.970490

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