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This article helps troubleshoot why characters may display incorrectly in Graphs while using a SUSE OS.

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titleLAST TESTED ON CHECKMK 2.2.0P1

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Warning

These actions are unsupported since the changes are to the OS, not the Checkmk software. This behavior was observed only on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES15) with Service Pack 4.

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Problem

You may encounter an issue where the characters in your Checkmk service graphs appear incorrect. This is caused by the default font pack that SLES15 SP4 uses. 

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  1. Stop the site

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    root@linux#root@mylinuxhost# omd stop <mysite>

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  2. Change directory to /usr/share/

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    root@linux#root@mylinuxhost# cd /usr/share/

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  3. Create a backup of the original fonts file

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    root@linuxroot@mylinuxhost:/usr/share# mv fonts fonts.bak

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  4.  Install zypper

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    root@linuxroot@mylinuxhost:/usr/share# zypper install -f google-opensans-fonts

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  5. Start the site

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    root@linuxroot@mylinuxhost:/usr/share# omd start <mysite>

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