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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Yepp it did! Thanks a lot! 🙂
Comment by Marius — January 16, 2012 #
wonderfull …. this time you save me to get crazy ….
Comment by Fabio — April 12, 2012 #
Its dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts on rhel 6.3 🙂
Comment by markitoxs — September 5, 2012 #
Thank you very much!
Comment by Evgeniy — December 11, 2012 #
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 #
Thanks!
Comment by milameber — February 28, 2013 #
Thank you very much, saved me a lot of time
Comment by Nikolay Dimitrov — March 11, 2013 #
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 #
You saved my day.
Thank you!
Comment by Maxym — July 16, 2013 #
Thank you very much!
In my case (displaying virt-manager from CentOS 6.4 to OSX 10.8.4/XQuartz 2.7.4, I needed the following package:
dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts
Comment by chrismarget — August 2, 2013 #
Hi Thank you so much, works perfect for me.
Comment by Johannes Thoma — October 24, 2013 #
Thank you!!
Comment by Oele — December 10, 2013 #
OMFG, you saved my server!
Comment by sin — January 15, 2014 #
Thank you very much. In my case (Fedora 19 – future Centos 7) it is:
yum install dejavu-sans-fonts.noarch
because I don’t need Latin-Greek-Cyrilic fonts 😉
Comment by OnkelPony — May 6, 2014 #
Thanks!
Comment by Javier Cruz — May 17, 2014 #
You are a God amongst men.
Comment by sirkojac — July 24, 2014 #
Thanks for this!
Comment by Martin K — December 1, 2014 #
Thanks a lot for this!
Comment by Shahzad Ali — December 15, 2014 #
Many thanks, it helped!
Comment by Anton Sk — February 6, 2015 #
GREAT IT WORKS! Thanks a lot !
Comment by bILLY — April 18, 2015 #
Now how to fix the missing icons?
Comment by Nick — April 30, 2015 #
Thanks a lot, saved some hours! )))
Comment by Valera — August 6, 2015 #
TNX
Comment by gehrke — October 3, 2015 #
Thank you it saved me lots of time and it worked on the first time. Although on RHEL7 I simply needed to install dejavu-sans-fonts.noarch which pulls one additional package.
Comment by Saul Alanis — October 6, 2015 #
Amazing, thank you!
Comment by Ollie — November 19, 2015 #
aaah now my spyder ide displays the font. Executed this on a centos server on amazon ec3, thank you!
Comment by dude — December 14, 2015 #
I tired to install but unable to find the font in RHEL 7.2
[root@UA-KVM1 ~]# yum install dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
No package dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts available.
Error: Nothing to do
[root@UA-KVM1 ~]#
But the below fonts just works .
[root@UA-KVM1 ~]# yum install ghostscript-fonts.noarch urw-fonts.noarch
Comment by Lingesh — December 17, 2015 #
Great post, saved me quite a lot of time, thanks!!!!!
Comment by ethermeister — July 6, 2016 #
It works! You saved me some time. Thanks!
Comment by Frank — July 13, 2016 #
Great, thanks a lot!
Comment by matias — October 5, 2016 #
Save a lot of time, thanks!
Comment by Sandro — January 14, 2017 #
Thank you very much.
Comment by nirmala — February 2, 2017 #
Thanks a lot you saved my time ..
Comment by vinoth — February 10, 2017 #
It worked, thanks much
Comment by Bert — March 1, 2017 #
Thanks, you beautiful bastard! 🙂
Comment by Jocke — March 8, 2017 #
That saved me tearing out what little hair I’ve left. Muy Gracias
Comment by Skrynesaver — March 22, 2017 #
Wonderful, thank you for this post. And thank you also to Lingesh
Comment by Vincent — April 5, 2017 #
its worked , Thank you very much.Its save my day
Regards
Solomon
Comment by Solomon — April 6, 2017 #
Nightmare/electron not rendering html on a headless Centos 7 server was kicking my ass. I solved many of the issues but this font issue was the most obscure. Thanks for saving my long weekend.
Comment by Todd — April 13, 2017 #
Comment #27 for RHEL 7.2 worked for me. Thanks!
[root@test ~]# yum install ghostscript-fonts.noarch urw-fonts.noarch
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Comment by Robert — June 12, 2017 #
The original font is not available on RHEL 7.2 but what Robert listed (ghostscript-fonts.noarch urw-fonts.noarch) worked just great. Thanks !!
Comment by Kevin — July 28, 2017 #
Thank you very much! This fixed my font issue when running apps via X11-Forwarding over SSH.
Comment by Chris — August 22, 2017 #
WOW!!! You are a live saver!!
Thank you so much.
kisses
Comment by Sandy — September 8, 2017 #
Brilliant – thanks! First hit from google for “virtmanager garbled font” 🙂
Comment by Orlando — October 22, 2017 #
It worked for me. 🙂 Two things are great here. One is you sharing this trick and 2nd is the Google who helped to reach the trick to sufferers like us. I think it would take a month to find the solution if this kind of problems appears decade ago. Crazy problem solved in minutes now. Thanks.
Comment by Lakshmi Toleti — November 7, 2017 #
Thank you very much, it worked for me.
Comment by Virat Raoy — December 19, 2017 #
thank you you fix my virtualbox x11 forwading text annoying eror cant read
Comment by Fakieh Maulana — February 14, 2018 #
Thanks !!!! (CentOs in Debian/VirtualBox, corrupted Chrome)
Comment by Mirek — April 24, 2018 #
Thanks, Worked for Oracle grid installer launcher.
Comment by Babin Lonston — May 21, 2018 #
Thank you!!! Fixed the Kubernetic tool running on CentOS 7.4, forwarding to Debian
Comment by Fred Rogers — July 10, 2018 #