Bug#1111967: upgrade-reports: May be due to font Cantarell v 0.303.1-3 + 0.303.1-4

From	Axel Stammler <axst@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel.testing
Subject	Bug#1111967: upgrade-reports: May be due to font Cantarell v 0.303.1-3 + 0.303.1-4
Date	2025-12-21 22:40 +0100
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Package: upgrade-reports
Followup-For: Bug #1111967
X-Debbugs-Cc: axst@users.sourceforge.net

package: fonts-cantarell

changelog for v 0.303.1-3:
- Explicitly build and install only the variable font
- switch to variable font

changelog for v 0.303.1-4:
- Create a debian/NEWS file to inform users about the requirement to restart the desktop session immediately after the font upgrade

During the minimal upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie, first all characters in the texts in
window decorations, menus &c. (which use Cantarell) disappeared and were replaced by
boxes, then the Gonme terminal crashed (disappeared) when I tried to open a new tab and
could not be restarted. The Gnome session became unusable (white error screen).

On a console terminal not used by Gnome I could see (ps -AHf) that Apt was still working
using /dev/pts/1. When it had stopped working I could continue the upgrade process on the
console.

GDM and Gnome only became usable again after ‘apt full-upgrade.’

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Bug#1111967: upgrade-reports: May be due to font Cantarell v 0.303.1-3 + 0.303.1-4 Axel Stammler <axst@users.sourceforge.net> - 2025-12-21 22:40 +0100

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