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r0b0t

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Registered: 2009-05-24

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[SOLVED] Arch Linux Guest showing garbadge characters / pango / bitmap

I did a fresh installation on virtualbox of arch (arch used both on host and guest) and everything went great except for :

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As you can notice the characters are shown on lxdm and on cinnamon.
Everything is updated to the latest versions and all kernel modules as well are loaded.

The only problem I noticed on the guest was :

[     4.826] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo"
[     4.826] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vboxvideo
[     4.826] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0)

which is quite weird since the module is loaded:

GUEST:

[arch@arch ~]$ lsmod | grep vbox
vboxsf                 40960  0
vboxguest              45056  5 vboxsf
vboxvideo              40960  2
drm_vram_helper        20480  1 vboxvideo
drm_kms_helper        212992  1 vboxvideo
drm                   516096  6 drm_kms_helper,drm_vram_helper,vboxvideo,ttm

HOST :

$ lsmod | grep vbox
vboxnetflt             32768  0
vboxnetadp             28672  0
vboxpci                28672  0
vboxdrv               503808  3 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

I have a windows 10 guest which works pretty fine,  I'm curious to try another Linux guest but I didn't have this problem yesterday with lxle...

Last edited by r0b0t (2019-11-10 09:13:11)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux Guest showing garbadge characters / pango / bitmap

If you wrap URLs in code tags, it turns them into plain text...

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Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux Guest showing garbadge characters / pango / bitmap

This is nothing to do with VirtualBox. Either you don't have the required fonts installed or you're trying to use bitmap fonts which are no longer supported by pango.

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r0b0t

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Registered: 2009-05-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux Guest showing garbadge characters / pango / bitmap

This is nothing to do with VirtualBox. Either you don't have the required fonts installed or you're trying to use bitmap fonts which are no longer supported by pango.

Yes it was the bitmap font. I used an old script I made when installing and apparently I installed a bitmap font there.
Marking it as solved