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[Ogilvierothchild <1166125@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This package was somehow auto-installed in a release upgrade today from 14.04 to 14.10, and cost me most of the day trying to figure out why everything in X was glitchy and crashing.  The terminal looked like
http://askubuntu.com/questions/285836/letter-spacing-in-gnome-terminal

Even xterm would crash on ctrl-right-click, and these badly-spaced
strange characters appeared in almost every terminal emulator (xterm
worked, except for its menus).  Font selection dialogs ground the
computer to a halt, and even the window manager titlebars were in a
wonky font.  Yet, something was showing, so it was a lot of work to
investigate the entire stack of X11, Xft, fontconfig, freetype, pango,
gtk, etc to find what component was bad.

sudo apt-get purge pango-graphite

solved the problem.  No idea how that package got installed, but it's
removal fixed everything immediately.  There is a serious problem with
this package in the 14.10 release of ubuntu as well.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166125

Title:
  Broken fonts for Gtk based applications

Status in GTK+ GUI Toolkit:
  Unknown
Status in Pango - Layout and Text Rendering LIbrary:
  Unknown
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “pango-graphite” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 beta of Ubuntu (Xubuntu), I am
  experiencing some issues. Like without me actually changing anything,
  my fonts are broken for some applications (most of them) and not for
  other (rxvt).

  See this http://i.imgur.com/ubVvr53.png

  As you can see, rxvt there is the only application with normal fonts.
  The Terminal application from Xfce suite is for some inexplicable
  reason using some kind of proportional font. See that the font in the
  Terminal Preferences is set to Liberation Mono. Also, please notice
  how in the Choose Terminal Font dialog the Courier New font Preview is
  not Courier New.

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