Ubuntu – Fonts totally unreadable

10.10fontsscreen-corruption

I've just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 and my fonts are all just small rectangles with nothing in them. They are completely unreadable. EVEN THE FONTS IN THE TERMINAL.

Thank god the fonts in my Chromium were ok, because I wouldn't be able to find this site or write this message.

So far I've tried to use the Appearance – > Font thing and it doesn't work. For some reason there was an error with the fonts during the installation.

Please help, this is an utter nightmare…

Best Answer

You said there was a problem during the upgrade? To make sure the upgrade is totally finished I suggest you try:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Or try to reinstall Ubuntu fonts:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-ubuntu-font-family

You can also try to rebuild the font information files:

sudo fc-cache -f -v

Also if you have a .fonts.conf file in your home directory backup it and delete it or just move it:

mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/fonts.conf.inactive
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