Roboto fonts make printer crash (fonts-android)

Hi Jean-Sebastien, and thanks for your report. We are using the Debian version of fonts-roboto (which is built from the fonts-android source package), so it would be great if you also could file a bug report against fonts-android in Debian's bug tracker, and post a link to that bug here.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=fonts-android

I have filed a bug report in Debian here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782116

Thanks!

It just struck me... Possibly we already have the working fonts in the archive, since there was a new upstream version in vivid. Can you please install the vivid version of fonts-droid and let us know if it fixes the problem:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fonts-droid_4.4.4r2-6_all.deb

Sorry, i meant fonts-roboto, of course.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/fonts-roboto_4.4.4r2-6_all.deb

Using fonts-roboto 1:4.4.4r2-6 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS solved the issue.

I am able to print my document.

Is this package likely to be pushed to the 14.04 LTS version?

Thanks for testing. Well, it will backported to trusty if someone does it. ;) I'll propose something.

I have built a trusty version of fonts-android in my PPA with the newer versions of the Roboto fonts:

https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/roboto-test

So, Jean-Sebastien, before I propose it for the 14.04 archive, it would be great if you could install fonts-roboto 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2~ppa and let us know if it fixes the issue.

@Jean-Sebastien: Any chance that you can test fonts-roboto in my PPA? I'm disinclined to propose a change to 14.04 without knowing that it fixes the issue.

@Gunnar Unfortunately, I won't have access to the HP-Laser Jet P2055 on which I had the issue until next week. I've been unable to reproduce the bug with a Brother-HL-2270DW-series that is more recent than the HP one.

I will test your package as soon as I have access to the HP-Laser Jet P2055 again, that is next week. I apologize for the delay.

Ok, no problem. I just wanted to make sure that you hadn't forgotten. ;) Thanks in advance!

I've been able to test your fonts-android PPA with the HP-Laser Jet P2055 sooner than I expected.

I was able to reproduce the issue using fonts-roboto 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.1

After installing the version from your ppa (fonts-roboto 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2~ppa), it solved the problem and I was able to successfully print a Roboto test page with the HP-Laser Jet P2055.

I've join two pdf documents to this bug report. One produced with the fonts-roboto 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.1 and the other one with the fonts-roboto 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2~ppa.

Hello Jean-Sebastien, or anyone else affected,

Accepted fonts-android into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-android/1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I have successfully installed fonts-roboto 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2 (and fonts-droid 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2) from trusty-proposed. A more recent set of Roboto fonts was installed, and fontconfig behaved as expected. The bug reporter has previously (comment #12) confirmed that the change actually addresses the reported issue.

This bug was fixed in the package fonts-android - 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2

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fonts-android (1:4.3-3ubuntu1.2) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/new-roboto-fonts/*, debian/fonts-roboto.install:
    - Install Roboto fonts from upstream version 4.4.4r2 (LP: #1441210).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:44:00 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for fonts-android has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.