All widgets are missing text

[notklaatu]

As far as I know, nothing on my system has significantly changed, but in GIMP all text is missing from all widgets.

I have run this:

$ flatpak repair org.gimp.GIMP

Flatpak appears to confirm that everything is up-to-date and healthy.

And yet:

GIMP is the only application, Flatpak or otherwise, affected in this way.

[Jehan]

We have from time to time people experiencing similar issues (though mostly on macOS, I think: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/7589), but we are a bit at a loss at what happens. I think it would require someone who reproduce it with the ability to also investigate what's happening in the code when this happens.

Specifically for the flatpak version of the issue, I wonder if it could be tied to #20.

[HarryMichal]

Might be worth playing around with locales to see whether this is language dependent.

@notklaatu, what language do you use on your system? It would also be very helpful, if you provided us with more detailed information about your system. What distro, version, desktop environment, etc.

[notklaatu]

Might be worth playing around with locales to see whether this is language dependent.

@notklaatu, what language do you use on your system? It would also be very helpful, if you provided us with more detailed information about your system. What distro, version, desktop environment, etc.

distro version: RHEL 9.1
desktop: GNOME: 40.10
locale: en_NZ.UTF-8

This output seems possibly relevant:

$ flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP 2>&1 | tee gimp.log
Gtk-Message: 06:07:56.297: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 06:07:56.297: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"

(gimp-2.10:2): Pango-WARNING **: 06:07:56.562: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Cantarell 11'

(gimp-2.10:2): Pango-WARNING **: 06:07:56.562: font_face status is: file not found

(gimp-2.10:2): Pango-WARNING **: 06:07:56.562: scaled_font status is: file not found

(gimp-2.10:2): Pango-WARNING **: 06:07:56.562: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Cantarell 11'

It goes on like that.

I appear to have three org.gnome.Platform flatpaks installed (3.38, 42, and 43), which I assume would contain the required fonts?

I also have Cantarell installed locally in /usr/share/fonts/

[HarryMichal]

@notklaatu, hi, is the issue still happening?

I did some quick search on the internet and encountered a similar case where they apparently fixed the issue by force refreshing the font cache in the flatpak package using the following command (updated to match the GIMP flatpak):

flatpak run --command=fc-cache org.gimp.GIMP//stable -f -v