Font Bad Rendering and is Missing Some Character

I just booted my laptop normally and suddenly, some character is missing in my font and appears to have bad rendering. the problem is fixed when i select my font again, but the problem happens again after reboot, its annoying to select font everytime after booting up.

edit : after fresh reinstall, the problem still persist. at first it was fine but after reboot the font became weird again. i think it has something to do with the 21.0 update. because in version a 19 and 20 my system is fine. Any help would be appreciated.

Steps to recreate

  1. I use font A and then reboot, after reboot font A is buggy
  2. to fix the missing the missing character i have to change to font B, after reboot, font B is buggy and when i change to font A the problem is gone, but after reboot, font A is missing some character again (goes back to step 1)

System:
Kernel: 5.10.23-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=4ac7e654-6ce5-4307-afb5-700e403e2ae0 rw udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X441SA v: 1.0 serial:
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X441SA v: 1.0 serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X441SA.314 date: 04/16/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.3 Wh (98.7%) condition: 30.7/34.6 Wh (88.8%)
volts: 10.8 min: 10.8 model: ASUSTeK X441-33 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Charging
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N3060 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Airmont
family: 6 model-id: 4C (76) stepping: 4 microcode: 411 cache: L2: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 6402
Speed: 480 MHz min/max: 480/2480 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 480 2: 586
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx
Integrated Graphics
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:22b1
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Realtek USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 0bda:57de class-ID: 0e02 serial:
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 400 (BSW) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.4
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series
High Definition Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:2284 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.23-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.23 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 168c:0036 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: IMC Networks type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-3:4
chip-ID: 13d3:3423 class-ID: e001
Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.47 GiB (2.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: rev: 1J scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.19 GiB (97.89%)
used: 13.45 GiB (7.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
used: 27.7 MiB (28.8%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 6280.4 C mobo: 55.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2800
Info:
Processes: 171 Uptime: 7m wakeups: 1 Memory: 1.83 GiB used: 1.11 GiB (60.9%)
Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages:
pacman: 991 lib: 280 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.03

Try typing this in a terminal: fc-cache -f -v. It happened the fonts went buggy as well when I installed new ones through creating a .config/fonts folder and locating them in there. xos4 Terminus was not in use and was replaced by a fallback font.

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