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Fixing MySQL workbench

If you get this error:

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 9'

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 9', text='Initializing Workbench components...'

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Bitstream Vera Sans 9'

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory

(mysql-workbench-bin:13045): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory

and you are on ubuntu~13.10 you might need to install the package ttf-bitstream-vera

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