SAP PO – ConfigTool doesn’t show any text or button

Last time I had a problem with ConfigTool. It opens but does not show any text or buttons like on the below screens. I use use: SAPJVM_VERSION = 8.1.097.

Solution

1. You have to google-roboto-fonts package for Linux system. Go to https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto and click in download family
2. Save the ZIP file and copy to the affected server
3. Extract ZIP file
4. Copy all “Roboto-*.ttf” font files to font path for linux “/usr/share/fonts/truetype”
   1. Make sure to set the same authorization to the files with
      1. chmod 644 Roboto-*
      2. chown root:root Roboto-*
5. Run the following command to refresh the font cache “fc-cache -f -v”
6. Restart the Config tool

Now everything is OK. ConfigTool works properly.