Fedora 17 Avast GUI not functioning

[Avastuser101]

The interface for registering (after installation) is scrunched down and unreadable.  No text is displayed and the GUI is "squished"  so all you can see when you mouse over it is some buttons (no text or description or icons) and a thin input field.  Also, once I was able to guess and enter in the activation code,  the main interface is also messed up,  you can see some checkboxes, but no text and it basically unuseable.

This behavior occurs in both the KDE spin and Gnome 3.4.  I was running Fedora 17 in a Virtualbox 4.1.16 with Desktop effects enabled and Guest Additions 4.1.16 running.

[Master_Simon]

Yep, seen this too, haven't changed anything, just loaded and run via apper.

Simon

Add to this, I'm running 64 bit Fed17, dont know if this makes a difference?

[exwane]

I'm having the same issue.

Anyone have a fix for this yet?

[nobodie]

here is the cli error:

 (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

this seems to be telling us that we are not getting fonts because it cannot find it. needless to say it is there, but perhaps Avast is looking in the wrong place for it?

Here is the complete dump of the backtrace and messages when using the cli command "avastgui" without root privilege

$avastgui

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans Bold 12" falling back to "Sans Bold 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Invalid subfont 0

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Invalid subfont 0 in get_font_metrics_from_subfonts

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4086): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"
*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x0808ba25 ***
/usr/bin/avastgui: line 178:  4086 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $AVAST_PREFIX/bin/$programname "$@"
jim@fedhomeSSD:~$ avastgui

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans Bold 12" falling back to "Sans Bold 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Invalid subfont 0

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Invalid subfont 0 in get_font_metrics_from_subfonts

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"

** (avastgui:4144): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Liberation Sans 12" falling back to "Sans 12"
*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui: free(): invalid pointer: 0xffb4691c ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x4489a119]
/usr/lib/avast4workstation/bin/avastgui[0x808ba39]
[0xffb46934]
[0x9e36008]
======= Memory map: ========
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f7210000-f7213000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
f7213000-f7394000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1056175                            /usr/lib/avast4workstation/lib/libavastengine-4.so.7.0.5
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f73c9000-f73d3000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
f73d3000-f73dd000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1056105                            /usr/lib/avast4workstation/lib-esmtp/libesmtp.so.5.1.4/usr/bin/avastgui: line 178:  4144 Aborted                 (core dumped) $AVAST_PREFIX/bin/$programname "$@"

could someone go through this and give us a solution to this problem?

Thanks!

[seanmichaelpdx]

I am having the same problem with Fedora 17 64bit. The gui window is scrunched up just like you said but I am not finding any solutions to this yet. How do I remove it?