0007508: NOT DISPLAYING TEXT - NUMBERS DISPLAY AS SPECIAL CHARACTERS

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0007508	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2021-12-24 22:49	2025-07-14 09:36

Reporter	tommydjango	Assigned To	daniruiz
Priority	normal	Severity	text	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	not fixable
Product Version	2021.4

Summary	0007508: NOT DISPLAYING TEXT - NUMBERS DISPLAY AS SPECIAL CHARACTERS
Description	My Kali when i update ends up losing all the numbers. ive attached a screenshot

tommydjango 2021-12-24 22:54 reporter ~0015568	https://imgur.com/NJM1gQe.png - screenshot

~~user6331~~ 2021-12-25 15:05 ~0015569	I had this too after "apt full-upgrade" last week You should do the following: fc-cache -rfv reboot your OS Those steps fixed fonts on my laptop

daniruiz 2022-01-03 15:21 manager ~0015595	This issue was probably caused by an update of the font Cantarell. I had this too but after a reboot it was working great again without having to update the font cache.

daniruiz 2022-01-07 08:51 manager ~0015603	The package is not provided from Kali but from Debian, and Upstream considers that the package should only be updated during reboot to avoid that kind of issues. I'm closing this issue as it's unlikely to be fixed and just logging out and in again solves it

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2021-12-24 22:49	tommydjango	New Issue
2021-12-24 22:54	tommydjango	Note Added: 0015568
2021-12-25 15:05	~~user6331~~	Note Added: 0015569
2022-01-03 15:21	daniruiz	Note Added: 0015595
2022-01-03 15:33	daniruiz	Assigned To	=> daniruiz
2022-01-03 15:33	daniruiz	Status	new => assigned
2022-01-07 08:51	daniruiz	Note Added: 0015603
2022-01-07 08:51	daniruiz	Status	assigned => closed
2022-01-07 08:51	daniruiz	Resolution	open => not fixable
2022-02-16 09:53	daniruiz	Relationship added	related to 0007584
2025-07-14 09:36	g0tmi1k	Priority	high => normal