After installing Microsoft Core fonts on ubuntu, firefox crashed when loading pages. When trying to load firefox from the shell, the following message is received
(gecko:6422): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is ‘Arial 12′
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Solution:
This problem is caused by permissions of the newly installed fonts, so just resetting permissions using the following command:
sudo chmod -Rv 775 /usr/share/fonts/
[How To] Install Microsoft Fonts on Ubuntu?
May 16, 2008
Installing Core Microsoft fonts:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
To make them work in X-windows, you may also want to install x-ttcidfont-conf if it’s not already installed:
sudo apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf
Another way to install fonts based on existing fonts folders inside Windows:
Gain root privileges:
sudo bash
Make a directory to store the fonts:
mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msfonts
Find the fonts on your windows partition, for me this was /media/sda1/Windows/Fonts
copy the fonts over:
cp /media/sda1/Windows/Fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msfonts
Re-create the font cache:
fc-cache -f -v
MP3 Tag editors for Ubuntu
May 16, 2008

sudo apt-get install gnome-vfs-obexftp