Mathematica 6.0 and Hardy heron

[anu7df]

I recently upgraded to hardy (clean install) and since then I have been having a few problems with mathematica 6.0. The graphics display looks horrible and the label texts are unreadable. Also running mathematica from terminal gives a segmentation fault even though it continues to run after that and everything appears fine except for this graphics bug. I thought initially that this might be a font problem, so I downloaded the latest fonts from the mathematica website and added it to my font path but that didn't make a difference. Combing through the forums, I find a few other bug reports about invisible texts etc but nothing like what I am facing. has any one noticed such issues? I have attached an image with this post of a simple plot showing the problem.
Thanks
Anu

[BaffledMollusc]

I had font problems and solved them by running mathematica with the -defaultvisual option. You could try that - it might help.

[anu7df]

I had font problems and solved them by running mathematica with the -defaultvisual option. You could try that - it might help.

I had tried this already. It didn't help. I am guessing this is not just a font problem, as the font is visible, only with less "fidelity".
Thanks
Anu

[ravenon]

On Launchpad
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197163
A recent post suggests that the QT4 libraries supplied by Wolfram are incompatible with Hardy. It suggests removing

/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux/libQtCore.so.4
/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/6.0/SystemFiles/Libraries/Linux/libQtGui.so.4

Linux replaced with Linux-x86-64 on 64bit systems.

Starting with the usual command mathematica (as opposed to mathematica -defaultvisual) now provides perfect rendering of fonts in a notebook. I have reported this to Wolfram's support group.

[aroch1]

Had this problem too, thanks a lot!

[mikesf]

after deleting libQtCore.so.4 and libQtGui.so.4 from mathematica directory, don't forget to install the libQt4Core and libQtGui4 from the repos (i.e. using apt-get or synaptic)
this fix works like a charm... i have beautiful fonts now!!! thanx for your help on this....

[eldivertido]

FWIW - deleting/replacing the Qt libs is not the best idea - Mathematica uses the commercial versions of the libraries, which may differ from the open source versions...

[erdos]

I think this type of problem can be overcome by using matlab.. If you are not familiar with matlab, then read online help of mathematica.. Hope you can rectify your problem..

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[PhDP]

I think this type of problem can be overcome by using matlab.. If you are not familiar with matlab, then read online help of mathematica.. Hope you can rectify your problem..

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To be fair, MatLab and Mathematica are very different program.

[eotakos]

for me the "-defaultvisual" option worked just fine! thank you very much BaffledMollusc!!