Font Related Problems With Recent FF 60.1

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When I start FF from command line, I’m getting a lot of errors similar to these —

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “pk-gtk-module”
Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf”, line 84:
Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf”, line 84:
Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf”, line 93:
Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf”, line 93:
Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf”, line 102:
Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf”, line 102:
Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf”, line 33: Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected Fontconfig warning: “/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf”, line 33: Having multiple in isn’t supported and may not work as expected

This version of FF doesn’t seem to be happy with my current font setup in CentOS 6.10.

4 thoughts on - Font Related Problems With Recent FF 60.1

  • The warnings appear to come from fontconfig, not firefox. Do you see something similar when you launch, say, gedit from the command line?

  • Kay Schenk wrote:

    This is probably because Firefox 60.x uses its own build of gtk3 on el6
    – and I guess there is an incompatibility between gtk3 fontconfig and the native el6 fontconfig ?

    Try editing /usr/bin/firefox and adding the line:

    export FONTCONFIG_FILE=”$MOZ_LIB_DIR/firefox/bundled/etc/fonts/fonts.conf”

    just before the ‘exec’ line at the end of the script

    James Pearson

  • Kay Schenk wrote:

    I doubt it is a problem with your fontconfig – I get the same issue …

    It is most likely because Firefox 60 uses a ‘private’ gtk3 runtime
    (which includes its own fontconfig set up) on el6 – as el6 uses gtk2
    natively

    I’ve reported this problem at:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id01475

    James Pearson

  • ​James, Hi and I think you are right on with this analysis. I suspect my fontconfig utilty isn’t working correctly to add new fonts or maybe Mozilla doesn’t install in the right config area. When I start up FF 52.8, no error messages about fonts. The de-install seemed to correct this, among other things.

    In answer to Liam’s question re gedit — then answer is NO — no bad output.​

    I am on 32-bit CentOS 6.10 at the moment. I HAD to switch back to FF 52.8
    because 60.1 just really wasn’t working. So, I won’t be doing any more testing with 60.1 *for a while*.

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    MzK

    “Less is MORE.”