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libfreetype6 2.8.1 makes terminal output to boxes #237

Closed nganhkhoa closed 6 years ago

nganhkhoa commented 6 years ago

Expected behavior

The text should appear on terminal.

Actual behavior

Every character is replaced by a box character. The color is the same.

Difference on mate and on VSC terminal which works as expected

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Upgrade libfreetype6 to 2.8.1-3-r2.6.3.parrot1 using apt-get. (I am using Parrot OS, you can find the files here: libfreetype6)

MATE general version

Help -> About shows: 1.20.0

Package version

1.20.0-1parrot1

apt-cache mate-terminal
mate-terminal:
  Installed: 1.20.0-1parrot1
  Candidate: 1.20.0-1parrot1
  Version table:
 *** 1.20.0-1parrot1 1001
       1001 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot parrot/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Linux Distribution

Parrot OS Security

Note

Since VSC has fixed the bug on font issue with libfreetype6, here, I decided to un-hold the package and upgrade to the newest version when this happened. Right now, I choose to downgrade to libfreetype6_2.8-0.2 and it works fine. I hope to find some help as I want to upgrade libfreetype6 not to hold it.

Thanks for helping.

nganhkhoa commented 6 years ago

In recent update, mate-terminal works fine again

$ apt-cache policy mate-terminal
mate-terminal:
  Installed: 1.20.0-4parrot1
  Candidate: 1.20.0-4parrot1
  Version table:
 *** 1.20.0-4parrot1 1001
       1001 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot parrot/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy libfreetype6
libfreetype6:
  Installed: 2.8.1-2
  Candidate: 2.8.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.1-2 1001
       1001 http://deb.parrotsec.org/parrot parrot/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thank you.