font stopped for Brainparty in 18.04

**chopra** · March 16th, 2019

Hi All,
I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 a while ago, and since then, one of the minigames in the Brainparty game isn't displaying fonts properly. I get a bunch of wierd glyphs and question marks in boxes instead of sentences.

I noticed, in my /var/log/syslog file, there were the following messages:

Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: #011Entry deleted from font path.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: #011Entry deleted from font path.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: #011Entry deleted from font path.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: #011Entry deleted from font path.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
Satellite-E45-B /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1791]: #011Entry deleted from font path.

So, I installed them:
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
sudo apt-get install xfonts-cyrillic

afterwords, I got the following message in the log file:

Satellite-E45-B org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop[2287]: Fontconfig warning: Directory/file mtime in the future. New fonts may not be detected.

The problem still won't go away. Not sure if it's related to the fonts or not.
Thanks, Chopra

**thenailedone** · March 17th, 2019

Could you try running the below in terminal and then try again?

Code:

sudo fc-cache -f -v

If you are curious about the command above - Link to online man-page.

**chopra** · March 19th, 2019

Thanks for the tip. That didn't seem to help though. The command said it suceeded, but the font is still gibberish.

**Holger_Gehrke** · March 23rd, 2019

If you're talking about the garbled or missing display of premises in the mini game 'symbolic logic', then it's not a font-problem. There's a bug in the game. It's been fixed, but the patch only came out in February 2019, so it's not in the version that's in the list of packages for 18.04 in the repositories. There are new packages (brainparty_0.61+dfsg-5_amd64.deb and brainparty-data_0.61+dfsg-5_all.deb) but they are part of the next release, I think. I manually downloaded them from the repository, installed them through 'sudo apt install' and they do seem to work on my machine under XUbuntu 18.04.

Holger

**chopra** · March 25th, 2019

Ah, yes, that's exactly what I was referring to. I thought it was odd that it was only that minigame, and only the premises, not the conclusions.
When you say you manually downloaded them from the repository, and then used sudo apt install, do you mean the repository linked to the message board that you linked to?
Thanks, Chopra

**Holger_Gehrke** · March 30th, 2019

I meant the Ubuntu repositories. The repositories are just web-sites with a fixed structure that tools like apt or synaptic know and can navigate. You can browse a repository with a normal web browser, but finding packages that way is a bit of a chore. There's a search for packages at https://packages.ubuntu.com that should lead to the right packages quite quickly, especially if you tell it to only show packages for the next release ('disco dingo').

Holger.