I'm on a fresh install of x86 14.04, having trouble starting some applications, and the problem apparently has something to do with ttf fonts.
When I start a few apps, for example roguelike game dungeon crawl stone soup, installed from the software center, I get:
ERROR: Could not find font '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
I tried a few other apps, what happens is they just show a black screen for a second and then I go back to desktop, and the error reporter starts.
If I start them from the terminal, I can see what the error is, it's not identical for every app, but mostly it shows "could not find a .ttf"
or, "a .ttf does not exist"
.
I checked, I have restricted extras and the actual fonts installed. Tried changing the permissions on the actual files and folders themselves, even changed the ownership of usr to myself, but the error persists.
I can't check whether or not the live system has the problem on this machine right now.
Thanks in advance.