How to fix the font for virt-manager via X forwarding

December 24, 2011

I’ve installed the virt-manager on one of my servers (RHEL/Centos/SL) and tried to access the virt-manager via X forwarding but I just got following:

Other programs like xclock or xterm worked without problem .. after some searching and debugging I solved the problem with following command:

yum install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts


Hope this solution spares someone-other some minutes.

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1. Yepp it did! Thanks a lot!

   Comment by Marius — January 16, 2012 #

2. wonderfull …. this time you save me to get crazy ….

   Comment by Fabio — April 12, 2012 #

3. Its dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts on rhel 6.3

   Comment by markitoxs — September 5, 2012 #

4. Thank you very much!

   Comment by Evgeniy — December 11, 2012 #

5. This saved me lots of time digging in to this strange issue. Why on earth the virt-manager package doesn’t require the fonts package is a mystery.

   Thanks!

   Comment by GrateFul Guy — January 27, 2013 #

6. Thanks!

   Comment by milameber — February 28, 2013 #

7. Thank you very much, saved me a lot of time

   Comment by Nikolay Dimitrov — March 11, 2013 #

8. Thank you for this post. This fixed my bacula admin tool problem.

   I thought it would have to do with fonts, but did not know which to consider. How did you know it was looking for dejavu?

   Comment by John — April 23, 2013 #

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