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I have searched far and wide for two weeks trying to solve my issue and nothing has done much good, so I'm at the end of my string here! I created a custom printer-selection app for my workplace in Python, and used pyinstaller to make a one-file executable, which I intend to distribute to all of our machines. The catch is that I use Linux Mint, but the lab machines are RHEL 6.3. I have tried several virtual machines including Centos 6.3 and Fedora 17, and both give me the same issue. The problem is that I get a bunch of "Pango-WARNING **" errors in the console and then my app comes up with square boxes instead of text.

my console output when running "test" application:

>(test:22258): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",
>Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
>Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
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>./d00087.ps
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>(test:22258): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'
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>(test:22258): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'

image of output

Any ideas?

user2288570
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I'm guessing you didn't include the font files it wants when you packaged it up. Tell PyInstaller to include those or manually copy them in. Or tell wxPython to use a normal font. Looking those errors up points to Cairo having an issue. Maybe the RHEL doesn't have Cairo installed or is using a different version of Cairo.

Mike Driscoll
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  • Hmm I will check that. I didn't specify a font in the application at all, but since it bundles everything together into one meta-binary I can understand that. – user2288570 Apr 17 '13 at 17:34
  • I'm just thinking that PyInstaller is not bundling something up. I would run across something like this with py2exe on Windows where it wouldn't bundle up the images I needed. – Mike Driscoll Apr 17 '13 at 17:36
  • I discovered that each system needs its own binary, so I solved the problem by running pyinstaller on the guest machine. – user2288570 Apr 17 '13 at 22:20
  • Well, that sucks. I wonder if you could make a RHEL version and a Centos version. – Mike Driscoll Apr 18 '13 at 13:30