No text displaying in Google Analytics? Running Linux? Fedora Core 5 (FC5)? I noticed a problem recently with Google Analytics where the graphics in the little flash animation boxes would come up fine, but no text would display.

I found a page on flickr that suggested that I might be missing the font used, but I looked and both msttcorefonts and ghostscript-fonts were installed (what sounded closest to the necessary packages on Ubuntu and Debian, respectively).

It turned out to be this bug in Macromedia Flash (I have flash-plugin-7.0.61-1), and the suggested fix/workaround:

# mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/
# ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config

worked like a charm.