Antialias not working in ubuntu lucid lynx 10.04

Question

I have recently upgraded from karmic to lucid (plain ubuntu using gnome).

Everything worked fine, but the characters now aren't anti-aliased any more, as you can appreciate from the screenshot:

This is what I tried to fix the situation, unluckily without succeeding:

1. Used the regular option pane from System->Preference->Appearance->Font (smoothing, hinting...)
2. Edited the .fonts.conf file
3. Disinstalling (and then re-installing) the mstcorefont package
4. Changing the default Sans font to a font of my liking (e.g. Tahoma) from the abovementioned Appearance options

My ubuntu installation is quite standard, with the typical add-ons one might wish for usability. I used the ubuntu start script to make a few tweaks.

Answer 1

Try creating a new user, log in as the new user, and see whether the problem still exists. If not, something's wrong with your configuration under $HOME (which is common after a distribution upgrade). If it still exists, something is wrong with the system. You may need to sudo aptitude purge some packages (and reinstall them after that, of course) instead of just remove, which leaves system-wide configuration files untouched.